May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1272 pages
61h 18m
English
MustInherit and MustOverride KeywordsInheritance is straightforward because it enables building custom objects’ frameworks. In this context, an object can represent the base infrastructure for different kinds of classes. We saw how the Person class is the base infrastructure for the Customer, Employee, and Contact derived classes. Because of its implementation, the Person class does nothing special. It has a generic behavior, and you will probably never create instances of that class, whereas it is more likely that you will create instances of its derived classes. In this scenario, therefore, when you have a general purpose base class that acts just as a basic infrastructure for derived classes, you can force a class to be inherited so that ...
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