Chapter 7. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

This chapter is about deriving new types from existing ones using object-oriented programming (OOP). You will learn how to define operators and local functions, delegates and events, implement interfaces about base and derived classes, override a type member, use polymorphism, create extension methods, and cast between classes in an inheritance hierarchy.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Setting up a class library and console application
  • Simplifying methods with operators
  • Defining local functions
  • Raising and handling events
  • Implementing interfaces
  • Managing memory with reference and value types
  • Inheriting from classes
  • Casting within inheritance hierarchies
  • Inheriting and extending .NET types ...

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