Overloads

[Tom Sawyer]

You just put parameters into the New method and then set those parameters equal to the values.

So, say your student has properties called FirstName, LastName and Grade and you want to populate those when you create the object.

The syntax would be like:

Public Class Student
 
    private _firstName as String
    private _lastName as String
    private _grade as Integer
 
    Public Sub New(pFName as String, pLName as String, pGrade as String)
 
        _firstName = pFName
        _lastName = pLName
        _grade = pGrade
    End Sub
 
    Public Property FirstName as String
        Get
            Return _firstName
        End Get
        Set (value as String)
            _firstName = value
        End Set
    End Property
 
    Public Property LastName as String
        Get
            Return _lastName
        End Get
        Set (value as String)
            _lastName = value
        End Set
    End Property
 
    Public Property Grade as Integer
        Get
            Return _grade
        End Get
        Set (value as Integer)
            _grade= value
        End Set
    End Property
 
End Class

Then to create it, you'd do:

Dim s as New Student("Bob", "Jones", 75)