Using inheritance in C#

In today's world, inheritance is usually associated with the end of things. In OOP, however, it is associated with the beginning of something new and better. When we create a new class, we can take an already existing class and inherit it on our new class. This means that our new object will have all the features of the inherited class as well as the additional features added to the new class. This is at the root of inheritance. We call a class that inherits from another a derived class.

Getting ready

To illustrate the concept of inheritance, we will create a few classes that inherit from another to form new, more feature-rich objects.

How to do it...

1. Create a new console application and add a class called SpaceShip to your console application.

        public class SpaceShip 
        { 

        }

 

2. Our SpaceShip class will contain a few methods that describe the basics of a spaceship. Go ahead and add these methods to your SpaceShip class:

        public class SpaceShip...