C# Inheritance with Examples

You can create a base class (parent class). You can derive a new class (child class) from this existing base class (parent class). When you inherit a child class with base class you also inherit it’s members (fields, methods, properties etc.). you can also add these members and also can modify them as needed.

C# Inheritance with Examples

Declare and Use Inheritance:

Here’s how you declare and use Inheritance in C#:

Example

// base class(parent class)
public class Fruit
{
  public void Name()
  {
    Console.WriteLine("Fruit has name.");
  }
  public void Eat()
  {
    Console.WriteLine("Fruit is for eating.");
  }
  public void Taste()
  {
    Console.WriteLine("Fruit has taste.");
  }
  public void Color()
  {
    Console.WriteLine("Fruit has color.");
  }
}

// derived class (child class)
public class WaterMelon : Fruit
{
  public void hasWater()
  {
    Console.WriteLine("WaterMelon has 92% water.");
  }
  public void hasTaste()
  {
    Console.WriteLine("WaterMelon has mixture of sweet, sour and bitter taste.");
  }
  public void hasColor()
  {
    Console.WriteLine("WaterMelon has red green color");
  }
}

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Fruit is the base class, and it has a property Name and a method getName.

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