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Advantages of Inheritance

Explore the key advantages of inheritance in C# such as code reuse, localized code modification, extensibility for adding features, and data hiding for encapsulation. Understand how inheritance simplifies development and maintenance in object-oriented programming.

Reusability

Inheritance makes the code reusable. Consider that you are designing a banking system using classes. Your model might have these:

  • A base BankAccount class
  • A derived class named SavingsAccount
  • A derived class named CheckingAccount

In the above example, you don’t have to re-declare the fields nor do you have to re-code for the Deposit() ...