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* interfaces
* delegation instead of inheritance
* binary contracts (sometimes attributed to dependency hell)
It was shunned back then because of C++ and MFC/ATL. My favorite VB books were by Dan Appleman. I started to dislike VB after VB5 though.
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* interfaces
* delegation instead of inheritance
* binary contracts (sometimes attributed to dependency hell)
It was shunned back then because of C++ and MFC/ATL. My favorite VB books were by Dan Appleman. I started to dislike VB after VB5 though.