Re: oops questions c#

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parez wrote:
I want a method in my base class to be overriden by all derived
classes.My base class cannot be a abstract class. Also I dont want to
explicitly implement an interface for all derived classes.
How do i do it?
Can i just have one abstract method in a regular class?

What is the reason for not wanting an abstract base class?

Working on the assumption it is legit, a simple solution would be to mark the method as virtual in the base class and have it throw a NotImplementedException. The problem with this is you won't know until runtime that you might have forgotten to override the method in a derived class.
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Tom Porterfield

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