C# 5.0 Unleashed

Overriding Virtual Members

Overriding a virtual member is done by means of the override keyword. When you type the keyword in the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE), IntelliSense provides a list of members that can be overridden, as shown in Figure 14.11.

FIGURE 14.11 Use of the override keyword.

As soon as we pick a member from the list presented to us, Visual Studio generates a default implementation that does nothing but defer execution to the base class implementation, as shown in Figure 14.12.

FIGURE 14.12 Default implementation ...