Objectives: Gain experience designing classes using aggregation.  

Description: This program is intended to provide you with additional experience with classes and object instantiation, as well as utilizing aggregation to take advantage of code reuse.

Develop a new class called clsReference that has the following members:

Public Class clsReference
    Const numAuthors As Integer = 5
    Private author ( numAuthors ) As clsName
    Private title As String
    Private pubDate As clsDate

    Public Sub New ( )
    Public Sub New ( ByVal last As String, ByVal first As String, ByVal mi As String, _
            ByVal newTitle As String, ByVal mMonth As Integer, ByVal mDay As Integer, _
            ByVal mYear As Integer )
    Public Sub setAuthor ( ByVal index As Integer, ByVal last As String, ByVal first As String, ByVal mi As String )
    Public Sub resetNumAuthors ( ByVal size As Integer )
    Public Sub setTitle ( ByVal newTitle As String )
    Public Sub setPubDate ( ByVal month As Integer, ByVal day As Integer, ByVal year As Integer )
    Public Sub setPubDate ( ByVal month As Integer, ByVal year As Integer )
    Public Sub setPubDate ( ByVal year As Integer )

    Public Function getAuthorLastFirstMi ( ) As String
    Public Function getAuthorLastFiMi ( ) As String
    Public Function getAuthorLastFiMi_FirstMiLast ( ) As String
    Public Function getAuthorLastFirstMi_FirstMiLast ( ) As String  *
    Public Function getTitle ( ) As String
    Public Function getTitleLowercase ( ) As String
    Public Function getPubDate ( ByVal dateFormat As String ) As String
    Protected Function convertToLowerCase ( ByVal changeText As String ) As String 
    Protected Function convertToTitleCase ( ByVal changeText As String ) As String  *
End Class

* Not in original spec so not required yet.  You'll have to write it eventually....

The accessor and mutator methods for author must be capable of handling multiple names, i.e., an array of names.  Refer back to the Reference Styles help sheet for examples.

Refer to the Composition notes for assistance.