Chapter 5. Inheritance
Many programmers have long considered inheritance to be one of the most significant design features of OOP. Inheritance was made popular more than two decades ago by languages such as C++ and Smalltalk. Since then, new languages (e.g., Java) have come along and refined the features and syntax for using inheritance. Now with the emergence of the .NET Framework, Microsoft has designed a platform from the ground up that offers support for what is arguably one of the most elegant forms of inheritance to date.
The more you use the .NET Framework, the more you will realize just how extensively it takes advantage of inheritance. For example, as discussed in Chapter 3, the CTS relies heavily on inheritance. When you use the Windows ...
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