... developer of the problem. Of course, a developer could ignore your exception and attempt to access the properties of the object, but you did give those other developers ample warning. Also, none of ... instance of the class could exist in your application. In short, in VB 6, you didn't have control over the creation of objects. Technique Visual Basic .NET does give you this kind of control ... 9.4 Control the Creation and Behavior of Classes Now that you have code that can prepare all of the objects you need to access and update data in the database,...