Classes and base class inheritance in C#

Question

I have a class in C# like so:

public class BarChart
{
    public BarData BarChartData;
    public BarStyle BarChartStyle;

    public BarChart(BarData data, BarStyle style)
    {
        this.BarChartData = data;
        this.BarChartStyle = style;
    }

    string _uniqueName;
    public string UniqueName
    {
        get { return this._uniqueName; }
        set { this._uniqueName = value; }
    }
    string _rowNumber;
    public string RowNumber
    {
        get { return this._rowNumber; }
        set { this._rowNumber = value; }
    }

I want to create a class called Chart that will have all of the properties that BarChart class has. For example:

Chart someChart = new Chart(BarChart);
string name = someChart.UniqueName

I am relatively new to C# and the concept of inheritance is a little bit foreign to me. At the end of the day I will have multiple different chart types like LineChart, BarChart, etc., but I also want to be able to move them around and sort them like so:

List<Chart> groupedCharts = listOfCharts
.GroupBy(u => u.RowNumber)
.Select(grp => grp.ToList())
.ToList();

...hence the idea to throw them into generic Chart class for easy use with LINQ.

How would I go about setting that up?

Answer 1

Create an abstract Chart class:

abstract class Chart
{
    // Shared properties
}

Then inherit it:

class BarChart : Chart
{
    // Bar chart properties
}

Then you can create it as:

Chart someChart = new BarChart();