February 2014
Intermediate to advanced
1560 pages
50h 21m
English
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Chapter 4Inheritance
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
- Types of inheritance
- Implementing inheritance
- Access modifiers
- Interfaces
WROX.COM CODE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS CHAPTER
The wrox.com code downloads for this chapter are found at www.wrox.com/go/procsharp on the Download Code tab. The code for this chapter is divided into the following major examples:
- BankAccounts.cs
- CurrentAccounts.cs
- MortimerPhones.cs
INHERITANCE
Chapter 3, “Objects and Types,” examined how to use individual classes in C#. The focus in that chapter was how to define methods, properties, constructors, and other members of a single class (or a single struct). Although you learned that all classes are ultimately derived from the class System.Object, you have not yet learned how to create a hierarchy of inherited classes. Inheritance is the subject of this chapter, which explains how C# and the .NET Framework handle inheritance.
TYPES OF INHERITANCE
Let’s start by reviewing exactly what C# does and does not support as far as inheritance is concerned.
Implementation Versus Interface Inheritance
In object-oriented programming, there are two distinct types of inheritance — implementation inheritance and interface inheritance:
- Implementation inheritance means that a type derives from a base type, taking all the base type’s member fields and functions. With implementation inheritance, a derived type adopts the base type’s implementation of each function, unless the definition of the derived type indicates that a function ...
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