C# 5.0 Unleashed

Inheritance for Classes

The first thing we want to look at is how to derive a class from another one. C# uses a single syntax for inheritance both from a class or a set of interfaces, which is different from languages like Java, in which two keywords, extends and implements, are used. In the following example, we explicitly derive a class from System.Object:

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class Person : Object{    public Person(string name, int age)    {        Name = name;        Age = age;    }    public string Name { get; private set; }    public int Age { get; private set; }}

The preceding code is no different from omitting the colon and base type altogether because Object is the default base type if left unspecified:

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