C# Primer Plus

Chapter 16. INHERITANCE PART I: BASIC CONCEPTS

You will learn about the following in this chapter:

• The connection between taxonomical type hierarchies and object-oriented class hierarchies

• Why inheritance is advantageous when implementing classes that naturally fit into a class hierarchy

• The syntax needed for implementing a class hierarchy in C# and, in particular, how to derive a class from a base class

• Virtual functions

• The difference between overriding a method (using the override keyword) and re-implementing a new method (using the new keyword)

• How access modifiers and class hierarchies interact

• How to preserve the rules of encapsulation while implementing inheritance

• The protected and internal protected access modifiers

• Constructors and inheritance ...