Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

6.3. The Second Pillar of OOP: The Details of Inheritance

Now that you have seen the basic syntax of inheritance, let's create a more complex example and get to know the numerous details of building class hierarchies. To do so, you will be reusing the Employee class you designed in Chapter 5. To begin, create a brand new C# Console Application named Employees.

Next, activate the Project Add Existing Item menu option and navigate to the location of your Employee.cs and Employee.Internals.cs files you created in the EmployeeApp example of previous chapter. Select each of them (via a Ctrl-click) and click the Add button. Visual Studio 2010 responds ...