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Confusion with Inheritance

paul walker

This always confuses me....can someone please shed light where all is dark....
inheritedclass is inherited from baseclass, so the code below works ok, but will bc1 expose the methods/properties of baseclass or inheritedclass and why?
baseclass bc1 = new inheritedclass();

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Felipe Ramos16y ago
The inherited class will show properties from the base class that are not private. For instance if you had a Ship class that had a Fuel property and a class that inherited the Ship called Fighter with extra functionality for weapon an ammo, you would inherit the fuel, but the base wont have the ammo or extra functionality of the Fighter class. If you want to follow that approach it is better to create the base abstract so that you can't create a new instance.