The Class Builder utility is meant to help you build your class and collection hierarchy for your Visual Basic project. The Class Builder utility keeps track of the hierarchy of your classes and collections and generates the framework code necessary to implement the classes and collections, including the properties, methods, events, and enums.
The Object Model pane shows a representation of the hierarchy of all the classes and collections in your project. Clicking on a class or collection selects it for editing. Once a class or collection is selected, the properties, methods, and/or events appear in the Properties, Methods, and Events pane. Enums appear only on the All tab. Clicking on one of these members selects it for editing.
Classes and collections that existed in the project before the Class Builder was invoked, even classes and collections that were created by previous invocations of the Class Builder, cannot be edited or deleted by the Class Builder utility. Only classes and collections created in this invocation of the Class Builder utility can be edited or deleted.
If the Class Builder utility is invoked for the first time in a project that already has existing classes and collections, all these classes and collections initially appear at the root of the hierarchy; the Class Builder does not have information about the hierarchy. You can arrange the existing classes and collections using a drag-and-drop operation. The Class Builder will remember this arrangement. Subsequent invocations of the Class Builder in the project will preserve the arrangement of classes and collections.
File Menu
Displays commands for manipulating the file being built by the Class Builder.
Edit Menu
Displays commands for editing the currently selected item.
View Menu
Displays commands for changing the toolbar, or viewing and changing various options of the Class Builder.
Help Menu
Displays commands for accessing information about the Class Builder utility.
Toolbar
Contains buttons representing shortcuts for various operations of the Class Builder utility.
Object Model Pane
Contains a representation of the classes and collections in the current project. This view shows the hierarchy of the classes and collections. Clicking on a class or collection selects it.
Properties, Methods, and Events Pane
Displays the properties, methods, and events of the currently selected class or collection. Clicking on one of the column headings sorts the list using that column as the key. Clicking on one of the items selects that item.