Illustrated C# 2012

C H A P T E R  7

Classes and Inheritance

• Class Inheritance
• Accessing the Inherited Members
• All Classes Are Derived from Class object
• Masking Members of a Base Class
• Base Access
• Using References to a Base Class
• Constructor Execution
• Inheritance Between Assemblies
• Member Access Modifiers
• Abstract Members
• Abstract Classes
• Sealed Classes
• Static Classes
• Extension Methods
• Naming Conventions

Class Inheritance

Inheritance allows you to define a new class that incorporates and extends an already declared class.

• You can use an existing class, called the base class, as the basis for a new class, called the derived class. The members of the derived class consist of the following:
  • The members in its own declaration
  • The members of the base class