Working With Objects

Working With Objects

Server coding often involves objects.

The "Date" object is a typical built-in ASP.NET object, but objects can also be self-defined, a web page, a text box, a file, a database record, etc.

Objects may have methods they can perform. A database record might have a "Save" method, an image object might have a "Rotate" method, an email object might have a "Send" method, and so on.

Objects also have properties that describe their characteristics. A database record might have a FirstName and a LastName property (amongst others).

The ASP.NET Date object has a Now property (written as Date.Now), and the Now property has a Day property (written as Date.Now.Day). The example below shows how to access some properties of the Date object:

Example

<table border="1">
<tr>
<th width="100px">Name</th>
<td width="100px">Value</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Day</td><td>@DateTime.Now.Day</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hour</td><td>@DateTime.Now.Hour</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Minute</td><td>@DateTime.Now.Minute</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Second</td><td>@DateTime.Now.Second</td>
</tr>
</td>
</table>