Name
Shadows Keyword
Syntax
Shadows
Description
When a member of a derived class has the same name as a member of the
same type in the base class, and the keywords
Overridable and
Overrides are used appropriately, then the
derived class member overrides the base class member. That is, any
reference to the member using a derived class object refers to the
implementation in the derived class.
Shadowing works in a similar way but allows any member type to “override” any other member type. Thus, for example, a method can “override” a property. For a complete discussion of shadowing (with an example), see Section 4.4.5 in Chapter 4.
VB.NET/VB 6 Differences
The Shadows keyword is new to VB.NET.
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