Roopa

• Sep 27th, 2005

 

Inheritance helps in the reusability of the code. The class from which another class is derived is called base class. Those methods of the base class can be overridden. The deried class can also implement the methids of the base class. C#.net does not allow multiple inheritance. But multi level inheritance is possible. For eg. Class B derives from Class A, and class C can derive from Class B and so on...

One example in layman terms will be the example of a car. We can define the general features os a car like four tyres, engine poweretc in the base class. The derived class can use this as a base and extend its functionalities like sports car(eg. four wheel drive).