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Can you explain what inheritance is and an example of when you might use it?

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Last Update: July 03, 2006

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July 09, 2005 01:43:33

Sridhar

RE: Can you explain what inheritance is and an example of when you might use it?

Inheritance is the ability of the derived from the base class.
When you want to inherit (use the functionality of) another class. Example: With a base class named Employee a Manager class could be derived from the Employee base class.

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July 20, 2005 23:07:41

Iyyappan

RE: Can you explain what inheritance is and an example of when you might use it?

The methods and procedures of one class is used by another class is named as Inheritence.

Ex:
Public Classs BaseClass
Public Overridable Sub OverridingMethods()
MessageBox.Show ( BaseClass )
End Sub
End Class

Public Classs DerivedClass
Inherits BaseClass
Public Overridable Sub OverridingMethods()
MessageBox.Show ( ChildClass )
End Sub
End Class

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July 03, 2006 13:51:05

satyambabu53

Member Since: July 2006 Contribution: 8

RE: Can you explain what inheritance is and an example...

Inheritance means able to inherete the class from base class. The inherete class called derived class.The main advantage of the inheritance if any modification done origanl class safe.This is for reusable.

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