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C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework, Seventh Edition
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C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework, Seventh Edition

by Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1704 pages
43h 12m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 6

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Understanding Inheritance and Polymorphism

Chapter 5 examined the first pillar of OOP: encapsulation. At that time, you learned how to build a single well-defined class type with constructors and various members (fields, properties, methods, constants, and read-only fields). This chapter will focus on the remaining two pillars of OOP: inheritance and polymorphism.

First, you will learn how to build families of related classes using inheritance. As you will see, this form of code reuse allows you to define common functionality in a parent class that can be leveraged, and possibly altered, by child classes. Along the way, you will learn ...

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