.NET for Java Developers: Migrating to C#

5.4. Methods and Inheritance

We mentioned earlier that you can control inheritance in C# by using various access modifiers on the class members. This section explores the C# access modifiers.

5.4.1. Access Modifiers

In Java, a subclass cannot override a superclass method and make its access level more restrictive. That is, a public superclass method cannot be made private or protected, and a protected superclass method cannot be made private in the subclass. Subclasses can, however, make the methods less restrictive. C# does not have this restriction; in fact, a subclass can make a method less or more restrictive than the superclass, as long as the method can be called on the reference to which the created object is assigned. In Listing 5.11 ...