Review

Review

The following review questions are intended to reinforce key concepts and information presented in this chapter. If you are unable to answer a question, return to the appropriate lesson and review, and then try the lesson again. Answers to the questions can be found in Appendix A.

1. Briefly describe the major components of the .NET Framework, and describe what each component does.

2. Briefly explain what is meant by a reference type and a value type.

3. How do you enable your application to use .NET base class library members without referencing their fully qualified names?

4. Briefly describe how garbage collection works.

5. Briefly describe what members are, and list the four types of members.

6. Explain what constructors and destructors are, and describe their use.

7. Briefly explain the difference between Public (public), Friend (internal), and Private (private) access levels as they apply to user-defined types and members.

8. Do you need to instantiate a class before accessing a Shared (static) member? Why or why not?

9. Briefly describe how a class is similar to a structure. How are they different?