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

by Andrew Troelsen
May 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1752 pages
41h 17m
English
Apress
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6.6. Understanding Base Class/Derived Class Casting Rules

Now that you can build a family of related class types, you need to learn the rules of class casting operations. To do so, let's return to the Employees hierarchy created earlier in this chapter. Under the .NET platform, the ultimate base class in the system is System.Object. Therefore, everything "is-a" Object and can be treated as such. Given this fact, it is legal to store an instance of any type within an object variable:

void CastingExamples()
{
  // A Manager "is-a" System.Object, so we can
// store a Manager reference in an object variable just fine.
  object frank = new Manager("Frank Zappa", 9, 3000, 40000, "111-11-1111", 5);
}

In the Employees example, Managers, SalesPerson, and ...

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