Passing Derived class as a parameter to a method when the parameter type is base class

Question

I am a newbie and trying to understand concepts of inheritance and design patterns.

I came across this pattern http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_pattern when I w

Answer 1

Put really simply:

A Derived class (or subclass) is an instance of its base class.

So, when you pass an instance of ConcreteStrategyAdd into the constructor, you are essentially passing a Strategy object in.

There is no casting involved. The type hierarchy allows for this type of programming. It allows programmers to use polymorphism in their code.