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• Jan 22nd, 2007

 

What used to be a struct in original C language moved on to C++ and then C#. Although lot of class capabilities have been added into struct, its purpose is to just group together few fields and may optionally contain some methods for their manipulation. The inheritance is a powerful object oriented concept implemented through classes. Structures (struct) are not appropriate for replacement of classes, while classes could easily be used in place of structure. In fact, you can do virtually do any thing with classes -- structs are still around primarily for historic reasons.

pankajgharge

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• Dec 14th, 2007

 

Because structures are value types.

Vikas Yadav

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• Apr 4th, 2008

 

Structure support only interface inheritance but it don't  implementation(class) inheritance. Most probably bcoz its language(C#) feature and avoided due to complexities arised implementing it.

seemu123

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• Nov 11th, 2008

 

The Main facts for Inheritence to any thing that is it should worked as Base. And Structure could not worked as Base due to it is Value type. So, Inheritence is not supported by Structure.

LordAlex

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• Nov 6th, 2011

 

Value type cannot have a reference -it can be only boxed.
Question : How to implament the type casting operator for inherited structs?
Answer: Copy the part of the member fileds.
Hence, it can be considered like an object.

Mohammad Sharib Khan

• Jan 7th, 2015

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1222935/why-dont-structs-support-inheritance

Vasyliy Zvarydchuk

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• Sep 5th, 2015

 

Structures are inherited from System.ValueType abstract class on IL level and code Console.WriteLine(base.ToString()) inside structure will return name of structure type.