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inheritance

Building a new class on top of an existing one.

Inheritance lets a derived class reuse and extend a base class's members; C# classes have single inheritance, and every type ultimately derives from object.

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Examples

  • class Manager : Employee gives Manager everything Employee has, plus whatever it adds.

See also

polymorphism abstract class composition
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