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Visual Inheritance

Visual inheritance is a concept that most people seem to be familiar with. However, when programmers are asked whether they're using visual inheritance, most say that they don't take advantage of it. The next section will show you what visual inheritance is, and how to take advantage of it quickly and easily within your applications. By the time you're done with this section, you will have become a convert and will use visual inheritance in all your Windows Forms applications in the future.

Using Inherited Forms

When you create a class that inherits from another class, the newly created class inherits those members and methods that the child class is allowed to inherit. The same is true for an inherited form. When you look ...