Pro C# 10 with .NET 6: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming

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A. Troelsen, P. JapiksePro C# 10 with .NET 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7869-7_6

6. Understanding Inheritance and Polymorphism

Andrew Troelsen¹   and Phil Japikse²

(1)

Chambersburg, PA, USA

(2)

West Chester, OH, USA

 

Chapter 5 examined the first pillar of OOP: encapsulation. At that time, you learned how to build a single well-defined class type with constructors and various members (fields, properties, methods, constants, and read-only fields). This chapter will focus on the remaining two pillars of OOP: inheritance and polymorphism.

First, you will learn how to build families of related classes using inheritance. As you will see, this form of code reuse ...