Inheritance in C#

Inheritance is the ability of an object oriented language (C# in this context) to build new class definitions based on existing class definitions. Inheritance allows us to extend the behavior of a base (parent) class by inheriting core functionality into the derived subclass (child class). Inheritance promotes code re-usability.

Inheritance preserves encapsulation – private members of the base class can never be accessed from an object reference of the derived class. Private members can only be accessed by the class that defines it.

C# does not support Multiple Inheritance. A class in C# cannot directly derive from two or more base classes.