Inheritance will save you a ton of time when creating similar classes by repurposing some of the work you've already done and cutting down on redundancy. PowerShell v5 introduced a familiar concept to ...

Inheritance and composition are two programming techniques developers use to establish the relationship between classes and objects. Whereas inheritance derives one class from another, composition ...

That reuse is a myth seems to be an increasingly common sentiment among programmers. Perhaps, however, reuse is difficult to achieve because deficiencies exist in the traditional object-oriented ...

Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from Chapter 12, "Class Designer," of Jeff Levinson and David Nelson's book, Pro Visual Studio 2005 Team System, with permission from Apress [2005, ISBN: ...

Embedded C developers shy away from C++ out of concern for performance. The class construct is one of their main concerns. My previous article Code Craft – Embedding C++: Classes explored whether ...

Extension and specialization inheritance are two viewpoints of inheritance that are usually at odds; i.e., to fully support extension inheritance one should sacrifice specialization inheritance and ...