{"id":52,"date":"2019-12-19T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayling.tech\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:32:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T16:32:03","slug":"objects-in-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2019\/objects-in-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Objects in code"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Everything I read about object oriented code gives an example, like an animal, that has features such as a number of legs, and a breed, and any number of other, entirely-irrelevant-to-real-life-examples. These examples are good at describing the very, very<\/em> high-level concept, but they fail to provide the concrete examples that a user might genuinely need in their coding life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A module I have written pulls data from Active Directory, and has functions that can change that data. I believe this is a much clearer example than one that uses imaginary animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

public class AD\n{\n     public static string domain;\n\n     public AD(DirectoryEntry de)\n     {\n          DirectoryEntryI = de;\n          \/\/Other methods\n     }\n\n     private DirectoryEntry _DirEntry {get;set;}\n     public DirectoryEntry DirEntry\n     {\n          get\n          {\n               UpdateDN();\n               if (this.DN is string objectDn)\n               {\n                    _DirEntry = new DirectoryEntry(\"LDAP:\/\/\" + objectDn);\n                    return _DirEntry;\n               }\n               return null;\n           }\n     }\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
This class contains a constructor, uses Microsoft APIs [it would need “using System.DirectoryServices” above the namespace declaration], has member variables [DirEntry and _DirEntry] which have different accessibility, has a function [UpdateDN() which I have not included in the code to make it easier to read] and has a non-member variable to store the domain of this Active Directory object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Personally, I think this is a far more interesting example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Everything I read about object oriented code gives an example, like an animal, that has features such as a number of legs, and a breed, and any number of other, entirely-irrelevant-to-real-life-examples. These examples are good at describing the very, very high-level concept, but they fail to provide the concrete examples that a user might genuinely need in their coding life. A module I have written pulls data from Active Directory, and has functions that can change that data. I believe…<\/p>\n
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