Why Multiple inheritance is not supported in c#

Because it creates problems when design become complex, i.e. in complex designs, it creates multipath inheritance that causes compiler ambiguity.

So, to make it simple C# has provided Interfaces to implement multiple inhertance.

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In C# multiple inheritance has been eliminated to avoid the potential pitfalls of Hybrid inheritance and the ambiguities involved, i.e., when multiple copies of the same object is made available to a derived class from multiple inheritance classes. At that time scope resolution becomes a major issue. Please note that interfaces are merely used as contracts - they are not used for multiple inheritance. Multiple inheritance is NOT supported by C# or Java.

ramasagar

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That's Great, Sir...

Ya, It is true that multiple inheritance creates an ambiguity, that's why interfaces are introduced to overcome this drawback....

Interfaces are more useful .....infact one should use interfaces for each class because the contracts allow us to control the use of public methods in to the various class objects.

Also, the whole scenario of WCF is based on the contracts.

Sourabh07

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