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12. OOA&D > Preventing Inheritance
Preventing Inheritance
At the opposite end of the inheritability spectrum from the abstact classes and members that must be inherited are sealed classes. The syntax to seal a class is straightforward. Just mark a class with the NotOverridable keyword and other classes can’t inherit from it:
Public NotOverridable Class mySealed
Classes are easy, but those tricky keywords new and override get involved when you want to seal individual methods within a class. Here’s how that works:
