An useful property of delegate objects is that multiple objects can be assigned to one delegate instance using the + operator, process called delegate chaining.
Delegate chaining isn’t really useful until we will get to events and event subscribers, which will come in a future lesson, but it’s better to describe the behavior now, after you’ve seen a bit of delegates inner workings.… Read more
You already know from the lesson methods and functions and parameters that you can create methods that accept a number of parameters of different types. But what if you would want to send a method itself as a parameter to another method?… Read more
Interfaces, just like C/C++ pointers, are one of those topics that beginners, and even intermediate programmers are afraid of, because they do not understand them. In fact, the truth is, they are simple to understand, and the real difficulty comes when asking the question “why should I use them/where should I use them?”.… Read more
As I was explaining in the previous lesson, one way of achieving abstraction is trough the means of abstract classes and methods. The abstract keyword can be used for both classes and methods. An abstract class is a class that provides a partial implementation.… Read more
Another fundamental principle of Object Oriented Programming is abstraction. Abstraction mainly refers to the ability of using something without knowing or being interested about how that something does what we request of it. We do this every day: we do not care how a computer does all it does (well, actually, some of us do), we only care that it is able to do what we need from it.… Read more
The third fundamental principle of Object Oriented Programming is called polymorphism. At a fundamental level, polymorphy refers to the ability of having many forms, or to transform into many forms. It comes from the Greek terms poly, which means “multiple”, and morph, which means “shape” or “form”.… Read more
The second fundamental principle of Object Oriented Programming is called encapsulation. Its main definition refers to the action of hiding anything that is not essential from the outside world. It is not very difficult to understand the fact that we do not need to expose everything when we build something.… Read more
Virtual methods are methods that can be overridden in inheriting (derived) classes. By default, in .NET, methods are not virtual. In order to declare a method as virtual, we need to declare it using the keyword virtual, like so:
In the first lesson of the Objects chapter, I was discussing in a broad way about Object Oriented Programming, acronymed OOP, and I was enumerating it’s fundamental principles: encapsulation, inheritance, abstraction and polymorphism. In this lesson, I will explain inheritance at large, and how class hierarchies improve code readability and reusability.… Read more
