14.13. Visual Inheritance
Chapter 10 discussed how to create classes by inheriting from other classes. We have also used inheritance to create Forms that display a GUI, by deriving our new Form classes from class System.Windows.Forms.Form (the code that indicates the inheritance relationship appears in the Form’s Designer.vb file). This is an example of visual inheritance. The derived Form class contains the functionality of its Form base class, including any base-class properties, methods, variables and controls. The derived class also inherits all visual aspects—such as size, component layout, spacing between GUI components, colors and fonts—from its base class.
Visual inheritance enables you to achieve visual consistency across your applications ...
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