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title: "What is a base class?"  
description: "What is a base class?"  
author: "Sumit Kesarwani"  
published: 2013-11-13  
updated: 2020-09-18  
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category: "c#"  
tags: ["c#"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is a base class?

A class declaration may specify a base class by following the class name with a colon and the name of the base class. Omitting a base class specification is the same as deriving from type object.

## Answers

### Answer by Sumit Kesarwani

A class declaration may specify a base class by following the class name with a colon and the name of the base class. Omitting a base class specification is the same as deriving from type object.


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