Inheritance/classes in C#

Question

I am new to C#, and are trying to understand classes and "is a" relationships. I've been trying to get a piece of code to work, but I can't seem to get it right.

It looks like this: http://pastebin.com/cQDusptB

I have a base class, Mammal, which one should be able to create instances of, giving the name of the mammal as input. I also have a class, Dog, which is a Mammal. One should be able to create an instance of this too, in the same manner as Mammal.

Can anyone see my flaw(s)? If yes, can you please explain what i misunderstood/forgot?

Answer 1

When posting questions like this it is helpful to also post the error message the compiler gave you.

Can anyone see my flaw(s)?

You have a virtual constructor.

can you please explain what i misunderstood/forgot?

Constructors are not inherited in C# and therefore it makes no sense to mark them as either virtual or override.