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C# Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   C# Programming Cookbook Quick fixes to your common C# programming problems, with a focus on C# 6.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467300
Length 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dirk Strauss Dirk Strauss
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Preface 1. New Features in C# 6.0 FREE CHAPTER 2. Classes and Generics 3. Object-Oriented Programming in C# 4. Composing Event-Based Programs Using Reactive Extensions 5. Create Microservices on Azure Service Fabric 6. Making Apps Responsive with Asynchronous Programming 7. High Performance Programming Using Parallel and Multithreading in C# 8. Code Contracts 9. Regular Expressions 10. Choosing and Using a Source Control Strategy 11. Creating a Mobile Application in Visual Studio 12. Writing Secure Code and Debugging in Visual Studio 13. Creating a Web Application in Azure Index

Implementing polymorphism

Polymorphism is a concept that is quite easy to grasp once you have looked at and understood the other pillars of OOP. Polymorphism literally means that something can have many forms. This means that from a single interface, you can create multiple implementations.

There are two subsections to this, namely static and dynamic polymorphism. With static polymorphism, you are dealing with the overloading of methods and functions. You can use the same method, but perform many different tasks.

With dynamic polymorphism, you are dealing with the creation and implementation of abstract classes. These abstract classes act as a blueprint that tells you what a derived class should implement. The following section looks at both.

Getting ready

We will begin by illustrating the use of an abstract class, which is an example of dynamic polymorphism. We will then create overloaded constructors as an example of static polymorphism.

How to do it…

  1. Create an abstract class called...
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