Chapter 8. Classes and Inheritance
How many .NET programmers does it take to change a light bulb? Noneâthey call a method on the light bulb object, and it changes itself. Ha, ha, ha! Thatâs funny, but only if you understand the object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts that are the basic foundation of the .NET system. (Actually, itâs not even that funny if you do understand OOP.) Without OOP, it would be difficult to support core features of .NET, such as the central System.Object
object, which is the basic foundation of the .NET system. Also, productivity would go way down among Windows developers, who are the basic foundation of the .NET system.
Although I briefly mentioned OOP development concepts in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, it was only to provide some context for other topics of discussion. But in this chapter, I hold back no longer. After a vigorous discussion of general OOP concepts, Iâll discuss how you can use these concepts in your .NET code.
Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
If youâve read this far into the book, itâs probably OK to let you in on the secret of object-oriented computing. The secret is: itâs all a sham, a hoax, a coverup. Thatâs right, your computer does not really perform any processing with objects, no matter what their orientation. The CPU in your computer processes data and logic statements the old-fashioned way: one step at a time, moving through specific areas in memory as directed by the logic, manipulating individual values and ...
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