what is the difference between partial class and inheritance?

Partial classes : Within namespace class name can not be duplicate but at the time of development if its require to work multiple developer on single class inside same namespace then we can achieve the same with the help of partial keyword.

So we can have same name classes inside a namespace if we use partial keyword and complier pick all these and make a single final class with exact name.
namespace test
{
partial class person
{
//Developer 1 working on this
}
}
namespace test
{
partial class person
{
//Developer 2 working on this
}
}
compiler compile both and result a single person class.

Inheritance: We have class with some functionality and want to use that class functionality in another class then we use Inheritance. Inheritance allows us to use existing class functionality in derived classes.

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Lokesh Kumar

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Goto this LInk

http://addressof.com/blog/archive/2006/02/16/Inheritance-vs.-Partial.aspx

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Tiju Thankachan

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Thanks for your reply

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you can check here

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/480915/asp-net-partial-classes-and-inheritance
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050383/net-partial-classes-vs-inheritance

LP MER

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inheritance and partialclass are equallent to overloading and ovverriding (but not same).in inheritance we are acquiring properties,methods from base class to derived class,but in the case of partical class same purpose but we are using same method names but different classes by preceding partial keyword.

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LakshmiNarayana Nalluri.

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Refer this,

http://addressof.com/blog/archive/2006/02/16/Inheritance-vs.-Partial.aspx

Regards,
Susan

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