Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Chapter 12. Inheritance

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Applying Inheritance

• Deep Diving System.Object

• Introducing Polymorphism

• Overriding Members

• NotOverridable Keyword

• Conditioning Inheritance

• Acccessing Base Classes Members

• Constructors’ Inheritance

• Shadowing

• Overriding Shared Members

• Practical Inheritance: Building Custom Exceptions

Inheritance is the feature that enables designing classes that derive from simpler classes, known as base classes. Derived classes implement members defined within the base class and have the possibility of defining new members or of redefining inherited members. Members that a derived class inherits from the base one can be methods, properties, and fields, but such members must have Public, Protected ...