multiple inheritance in C#

[btreddy]

Hii all ,

I know that there is no support for multiple inheritance in .NET.

but if i declare a class like

public class myclass
{

}

by default it gets inherited from system.Object.

and if i inherit the class from class baseclass like below

public class myclass:baseclass
{

}

it is equals to

public class myclass:System.Object,baseclass
{

}

it means it supports multiple inheritance.Am i correct?

Thanks & Regards,
Tirumala Reddy.B

[hype261]

It depends upon how you think about it. Yes in your example myClass is derived from 2 classes, but you can't have..

public class myClass: baseClass, baseClass2
{
}

This is why people say C# doesn't support multiple inheritance. On the other hand C# does allow you to inherit from multiple classes assuming that 1 is only a real class and the others are interfaces.

public class myClass : baseClass, IanInterface
{
}

It is just easier to say that C# doesn't support multiple inheritance than to say C# supports multiple inheritance except that...

[btreddy]

Thanks for the reply

But sorry i'm not clear yet.

what is the difference between the following classes;

public class mycalss{}

public class myclass:System.Object{}

in both the declarations i'm able to access all the 4 methods that are there in system.object.

someone can help me in explaining what actually happening inside.

Thanks in advance

Rgds,
Tiru.

[GaryTexmo]

All objects in C# inherit from object by default, it's just a thing. I think Java does this too. So I believe those are the same.

[btreddy]

Thanks Gary for your reply.