Class ClassLifecycleInterface

Namespace

RDCore.SDK.Model.Symbols

Assembly

RDCore.SDK.dll

The interface every class module implicitly implements: its lifecycle (MS-VBAL §5.3.1.10).

public static class ClassLifecycleInterface

Inheritance

object

ClassLifecycleInterface

Inherited Members

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.ToString()

Remarks

It has two members, Initialize and Terminate, and a class handles them the way it handles the member of any interface it implements: with a procedure named InterfaceName_MemberName, which is where Class_Initialize and Class_Terminate come from. The class never writes an Implements Class directive, but the interface is one of its ImplementedInterfaces like any other, so whatever lists the interfaces a module implements - an editor building its dropdowns from the module's symbol - finds it there, with its members, and nothing special-cases it.

The rule that a class implements every member of an interface it implements (MS-VBAL §5.3.1.9) holds for it as for any other, with no exception: each member has an implementation of its own, which is empty (DefaultImplementation), and a class that writes no handler implements the member with that one. A class that handles neither event, the common case, is therefore in no breach.

The runtime does not call the handlers by name: it dispatches the interface's member to the implementation the class has for it (FindImplementation(VBClassModuleSymbol, VBTypeMemberSymbol)), the member's default when there is none, which is the same dispatch an explicit Implements needs. And the interface is not a name workspace code can refer to: nothing declares it to the scope tree, and it is no workspace symbol.

Fields

InitializeName

The name of the member that is raised once an instance has been created.

public const string InitializeName = "Initialize"

Field Value

string

InterfaceName

The name of the interface, and so the prefix of every handler's name.

public const string InterfaceName = "Class"

Field Value

string

TerminateName

The name of the member that is raised once an instance has lost its last reference.

public const string TerminateName = "Terminate"

Field Value

string

Properties

Initialize

The Initialize member of Interface.

public static VBTypeMemberSymbol Initialize { get; }

Property Value

VBTypeMemberSymbol

Interface

The interface itself.

public static VBClassModuleSymbol Interface { get; }

Property Value

VBClassModuleSymbol

Terminate

The Terminate member of Interface.

public static VBTypeMemberSymbol Terminate { get; }

Property Value

VBTypeMemberSymbol