Is there a clever way to hide (what would be public) base class functionality from derived classes? My first thought is to simply redirct the function call to a private function, but this would not ...

If you create a CustomerRepository that inherits from ReadRepository, you might choose to set the type of your base class: Public Class CustomerRepository Inherits ReadRepository(Of Customer) End ...

The first half of this introduction to Java inheritance teaches you how to use the extends keyword to derive a child class from a parent class, invoke parent class constructors and methods, and ...