Component Inheritance

Component inheritance is the means by which a component obtains attributes and behavior from another component. When you create a component, it inherits any variables, snapshots, and procedures from the associated component type.

The use of inheritance makes the component model powerful and flexible. For example, suppose that you have a thousand components that are based on the IIS Application component type. You want to add more functionality to these components. By adding the functionality to the IIS Application component type, each of the thousand components that extend it will inherit the new functionality.