C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications

Using Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio Code

In Visual Studio 2017, add a return statement to the method, or in Visual Studio Code, write the whole method, as shown in the following code:

// overridden methods 
public override string ToString() 
{ 
   return $"{Name} is a {base.ToString()}"; 
}

Run the console application and view the output. Now, when the ToString method is called, it outputs the person's name, as well as the base classes implementation of ToString, as shown in the following output:

John Jones is a Packt.CS7.Employee

Good PracticeMany real-world APIs, for example, Microsoft's Entity Framework Core, Castle's DynamicProxy, and Episerver's content models, require the properties that you define in your classes to be marked as virtual ...