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The BasicInheritance project is located under the Chapter 6 subdirectory.

The Second Pillar: The Details of Inheritance

Now that you have seen the basic syntax of inheritance, let’s create a more complex example and

get to know the numerous details of building class hierarchies. To do so, we will be reusing the

Employee class we designed in Chapter 5. To begin, create a brand new C# Console Application

named Employees. Next, activate the Project ➤ Add Existing Item menu option and navigate to the

location of your Employee.cs and Employee.Internals.cs files. Select each of them (via a Ctrl-click)

and click the OK button. Visual Studio 2008 responds by copying each file into the current project.

Before we start to build derived classes, you have one detail to attend to. Because the Employee

class was created in a project named EmployeeApp, the type has been wrapped within an identi-

cally named .NET namespace scope. Chapter 15 will examine namespaces in detail; however for

simplicity, rename the current namespace (in both file locations) to Employee in order to match your

new project name:

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