Multilevel Inheritence in C#

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Hi All I have a multilevel inheritance as below :-

public class OOPs
{
public virtual void Display()
{
Console.WriteLine("A");
}
}
public class B : OOPs
{
public override void Display()
{
Console.WriteLine("B");
}
}
public class C :B
{
public virtual void Display()
{
Console.WriteLine("C");
}
}
public class D : C
{
public override void Display()
{
Console.WriteLine("D");
}
}

I executed following piece of code :-

D d = new D();
OOPs a = d;
a.Display();
Console.ReadLine();

It gave me output as :- B

I am not able to find out the reason ...

Please reply me with the reason.

Thanks,
Dipankar

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Posted by: SheoNarayan on: 11/26/2010 [Administrator] HonoraryPlatinum | Points: 25

0	Very good and interesting question. I tried your code snippet and it gives exactly what you said and I tried to understand the reason and let me explain. Try to modify your calling code like below D d = new D(); d.Display(); OOPs a = d; a.Display(); Console.ReadLine(); In this case first you will get output as "D"; after that in the debug mode look at the "d" object in QuickWatch. You will notice that C is the base of D, B is the base of C and OOPs is the base of B as displayed below. In the very next line you have specified OOPs a = d that means in the whole inheritance hierarchy, you are limiting the "a" object to refer till B as OOPs comes before B. D --- > C --------- > B --------------- > OOPs So when you call Display() method of "a" object then it will call the Display method of B and it will print "B" character. Hope this will give you an idea how it is working. Thanks Regards, Sheo Narayan http://www.dotnetfunda.com Dipu710646, if this helps please login to Mark As Answer. \| Alert Moderator

Very good and interesting question.

I tried your code snippet and it gives exactly what you said and I tried to understand the reason and let me explain.

Try to modify your calling code like below

D d = new D();

            d.Display();



            OOPs a = d;

            a.Display();

            Console.ReadLine();

In this case first you will get output as "D"; after that in the debug mode look at the "d" object in QuickWatch. You will notice that C is the base of D, B is the base of C and OOPs is the base of B as displayed below. In the very next line you have specified OOPs a = d that means in the whole inheritance hierarchy, you are limiting the "a" object to refer till B as OOPs comes before B.

D
--- > C
--------- > B
--------------- > OOPs

So when you call Display() method of "a" object then it will call the Display method of B and it will print "B" character.

Hope this will give you an idea how it is working.

Thanks

Regards,
Sheo Narayan
http://www.dotnetfunda.com

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