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Virtual methods on sealed classes

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Hairy Pixels

Do sealed classes actually call virtual methods statically or are they just for compiler warnings?

Regards,
Ryan Joseph

Michael Van Canneyt
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Hairy Pixels wrote
Do sealed classes actually call virtual methods statically or are they just for compiler warnings?

The virtual methods are called exactly like other virtual methods.

Sealed just means you cannot create a descendant class. No optimizations are done.

Michael.