C# Learners - C# interface polymophism

i was writing a c# program this afternoon, it was no easy job. i found the interface mechanism was involved, which reminded me of the letter robbie had sent to me several weeks ago. it was about c# interface and looked terrifying, and again warned me that c# is not a trouble-free language despite all the convenience it has brought to us programmers. many parts of it are not intuitional, along with the keywords about twice to thrice more than c++ which I found disgusting. so it's time for us c# beginner to take note under the instruction of robbie:

 

here is the original text with the code by robbie:

 

C# Interface polymorphism test

 

This interface polymorphism test shows an amazing fact: please use the virtual keyword to implement a function in an interface.  Otherwise it would be rather weird.

 

using System; namespace RobbieTests { public interface IAbc { void Show(); } public class A : IAbc { public A() { } public void Show() { Console.WriteLine("In A.Show()."); } } public class B : A, IAbc { public B() { } public new void Show() { Console.WriteLine("In B.Show()."); } } public class B2 : A /* not explicitly inheriting IAbc */ { public B2() { } public new void Show() { Console.WriteLine("In B2.Show()."); } } public class RobbieTest { public static void Main() { A a = new A(); B b = new B(); B2 b2 = new B2(); b.Show(); /* In B.Show(). */ ((A)b).Show(); /* In A.Show(). */ ((IAbc)(A)b).Show(); /* In B.Show(). */ b2.Show(); /* In B2.Show(). */ ((A)b2).Show(); /* In A.Show(). */ ((IAbc)(A)b2).Show(); /* In A.Show(). */ } } }