The Default Method or Property

The Default Method or Property

The method or property that has the COM index of zero is called the default

property. Visual Basic enables a programmer to not use the regular

method/property syntax when calling the default value; you can leave the

syntactical call to the method/property off altogether. For example, the

default method in all collections is the Item method.

Set Object = Collection.Item(2)

This would get the second item in the collection and assign the object variable

to that object. Because the Item method is the default method, you can also

call the Item method as below:

Set Object = Collection(2)

Note that both the period and the actual name of the method are missing; only

the argument to the method remains.