Hands-On Design Patterns with C# and .NET Core

Types of inheritance

Inheritance helps us to define a child class. This child class inherits the behavior of the parent or base class.

In C#, inheritance is symbolically defined using a colon (:).

Let's take a look at the different types of inheritance:

• Single inheritance: As the most common type of inheritance, single inheritance describes a single class that is is derived from another class.

Let's revisit the PetAnimal class previously mentioned and, instead, use inheritance to define our Dog and Cat classes. With inheritance, we can define some attributes that are common for both. For example, the name of the pet and the color of the pet would be common, so they would be located in a base class. The specifics of a cat or a dog would ...