Microsoft® Visual C#® 2005 Step by Step

Chapter 12. Working with Inheritance

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Create a derived class that inherits features from a base class.

• Control method hiding and overriding by using the new, virtual, and override keywords.

• Limit accessibility within an inheritance hierarchy by using the protected keyword.

• Capture common implementation details in an abstract class.

• Declare that a class cannot be inherited by using the sealed keyword.

• Create an interface identifying the names of methods.

• Implement interfaces in a struct or class by writing the bodies of the methods.

Inheritance is a key concept in the world of object-orientation. You can use it as a tool to avoid repetition when defining different classes that have a number of features ...