Force base method call

Question

Is there a construct in Java or C# that forces inheriting classes to call the base implementation? You can call super() or base() but is it possible to have it throw a compile-time error if it isn't called? That would be very convenient..

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I am mainly curious about overriding methods.

Answer 1

There isn't and shouldn't be anything to do that.

The closest thing I can think of off hand if something like having this in the base class:

public virtual void BeforeFoo(){}

public void Foo()
{

this.BeforeFoo();
//do some stuff
this.AfterFoo();

}

public virtual void AfterFoo(){}

And allow the inheriting class override BeforeFoo and/or AfterFoo