Abstract class, how to avoid code duplication?

Question

I have the following code

internal abstract class Base
{
    public DateTime Time;
    public string Message;
    public string Log;
    public abstract void Invoke(string message);
}

internal class SubA : Base
{
    public override void Invoke(string message)
    {
        Time = DateTime.Now;
        // Do A
    }
}

internal class SubB : Base
{
    public override void Invoke(string message)
    {
        Time = DateTime.Now;
        // Do B
    }
}

I have these SubA and SubB classes which inherits from Base class, you can see that i have a code that repeating it self which is setting the Time, is there a way to move the setting of the time to the base class?

Answer 1

You could do something like this:

internal abstract class Base
{
    public DateTime Time;
    public string Message;
    public string Log;
    public void Invoke(string message){
         Time = DateTime.Now;
         this.InvokeInternal(message);
    }
    protected abstract void InvokeInternal(string message);
}

internal class SubA : Base
{
    protected override void InvokeInternal(string message)
    {
        // Do A
    }
}

internal class SubB : Base
{
    protected override void InvokeInternal(string message)
    {
        // Do B
    }
}