Does C# support multiple inheritance?

c# multiple-inheritance
Neil Knight picture Neil Knight · Mar 16, 2010 · Viewed 128.6k times · Source

A colleague and I are having a bit of an argument over multiple inheritance. I'm saying it's not supported and he's saying it is. So, I thought that I'd ask the brainy bunch on the net.

Answer

Asad picture Asad · Mar 16, 2010

Sorry, you cannot inherit from multiple classes. You may use interfaces or a combination of one class and interface(s), where interface(s) should follow the class name in the signature.

interface A { }
interface B { }
class Base { }
class AnotherClass { }

Possible ways to inherit:

class SomeClass : A, B { } // from multiple Interface(s)
class SomeClass : Base, B { } // from one Class and Interface(s)

This is not legal:

class SomeClass : Base, AnotherClass { }

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