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title: "When do you really need to create an abstract class?"  
description: "When do you really need to create an abstract class?"  
author: "Sumit Kesarwani"  
published: 2014-09-19  
updated: 2020-09-22  
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category: "c#"  
tags: [".net", "c#"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# When do you really need to create an abstract class?

We define abstract classes when we define a template that needs to be followed by all the derived classes.

## Answers

### Answer by Sumit Kesarwani

We define abstract classes when we define a template that needs to be followed by all the derived classes.


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