Causes the current class or interface to inherit the attributes, fields, properties, methods, and events from another class or interface.

Inherits typename

Parts

typename

Required. The name of a class or interface being inherited by the class or interface in which the Inherits statement is used.

Remarks

If used, the Inherits statement must be the first non-blank, non-comment line in a class definition.

An interface may inherit from more than one interface, but a class may only inherit from one other class.

Example

This example uses the Inherits statement to show how a class named ThisClass can inherit the fields, properties, methods and events from another class named AnotherClass.

Public Class ThisClass
   Inherits AnotherClass
   ' Add code to override, overload, or extend members 
   ' inherited from the base class.
   ...' Variable, property, method, and event declarations here.
End Class

See Also

MustInherit | NotInheritable | MyBase | MyClass | Inheritance