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OriginalGriff25-Jul-14 8:50
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As Rob has said, deriving from a base class specialises something - a book does not derive from a previous book except when it is an expanded version: the Directors Cut if you like.

Think about it: a "Book by Charlotte Bronte" derives from "Book", and so does a "Book by Terry Pratchett" - but that is pretty much the only thing they have in common: the elements which are common to all books (Pages, a cover, a title, an author) and so forth.

You wouldn't overload a method to get a number of pages from two different books, because the number of pages is a property of the individual instance on the book. But... you might overload it to get different information which is also instance specific:
C#
public class Book
    {
    private int pages;
    private List<int> chapters = new List<int>();
    public int GetPages()
        {
        return pages;
        }
    public int GetPages(int chapter)
        {
        int lastPage = pages;
        if (chapter >= chapters.Count || chapter < 0) return 0;
        if (chapter != chapters.Count - 1) lastPage = chapters[chapter + 1];
        return lastPage - chapters[chapter];
        }
    }

This has two overloaded GetPages methods.
If you don't supply any parameters it returns the number of pages in the book.
If you pass it an integer, it returns the pages in that chapter.

The type of the parameter determines which version of the method gets called, and thus what the method does.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

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QuestionC# how to compare the old product(serialized) to new product,If same product means add the quantity only not repeated that product in output for below program Pin
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