Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes
This chapter is about deriving new types from existing ones using object-oriented programming (OOP). You will learn about defining operators and local functions for performing simple actions and delegates and events for exchanging messages between types. You will implement interfaces for common functionality. You will learn about generics and the difference between reference and value types. You will create a derived class to inherit from a base class to reuse functionality, override an inherited type member, and use polymorphism. Finally, you will learn how to create extension methods and how to cast between classes in an inheritance hierarchy.
This chapter covers the following topics:
- Setting up a class library and console application
- More about methods
- Raising and handling events
- Making types safely reusable with generics
- Implementing interfaces
- Managing memory with reference and value types...
