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Whats the difference between override and new?

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Whats the difference between override and new?

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This is all to do with polymorphism. When a virtual method is called on a reference, the actual type of the object that the reference refers to is used to decide which method implementation to use. When a method of a base class is overridden in a derived class, the version in the derived class is used, even if the calling code didn’t “know” that the object was an instance of the derived class.