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 | Designing .Net Class Libraries - Designing Inheritance Hierarchies |
Designing Inheritance Hierarchies by Brad Abrams
- Learn how to design appropriately for specialization, specifically when to use inheritence over aggregation, abstract classes over interfaces, and so on. Also, learn situations in which virtual methods are called for.
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 Hierarchies_100k.exeSHA1: ba9511a04ebce25b99562aee174807b31440ce21 | 61.91 MB |
| Hierarchies_300k.exe SHA1: 05963dbacc56bd20e91a8fdf2ab82297df5c1109 | 116.08 MB |
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System Requirements
Operating Systems: Windows XP
- Required disk space: 55 MB
Microsoft Windows Media Player 6.x or later
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x or later
MSXML 4.0 SP2
Installation Instructions
- Right-click and save locally.