Understanding inheritance

If you went through Chapter 2, Understanding Classes, Structures, and Interfaces, you will already know how inheritance helps us in code reuse and reduced maintenance, and that it gives us more control of the entire application.

We also looked at a few code examples and saw how inheritance works and how it's implemented in C#. Now, we will look at some advanced features in inheritance, their use, and how they are implemented in C#.

Method overriding

Method overriding is a technique in C# that we can use to invoke the methods that are defined in the base class from the classes that are deriving from that base class. In method overriding, a derived class implements a function that's declared...