Overview

Another core concept of Object Orientated Programming (OOP) is the mechanism of inheritance. In our previous tutorial we introduced classes, and this tutorial builds on that to show you how we create inheritance hierarchies using classes.

In this tutorial you will learn

• What is inheritance
• A word on System.Object
• How do I declare inheritance
• Inherited type members (constructors, methods and properties)

In the previous tutorial, Classes, you learned

• What a class is
• How to declare an instance of a class
• Adding methods to a class
• Adding properties to a class
• Adding a constructor to a class

Previous Tutorials in this Course

• Introduction to C# Beginner Course
• Hello World
• Using the Console
• Variables and Standard Types
• Classes