Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

Chapter 10. Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance

Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.

—Johann Kasper Lavater

This method is to define as the number of a class the class of all classes similar to the given class.

—Bertrand Russell

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

—Augustine Birrell

Save base authority from others’ books.

—William Shakespeare

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn: What inheritance is and how it promotes software reusability. The notions of base classes and derived classes. To use keyword Inherits to create a class that inherits attributes and behaviors from another class. To use the access modifier Protected in a base class to give derived ...