抽象类中的重写方法

Question

I am currently reading this article from MSDN (which is also here ). As a newbie, I can't figure out why there is an override method within an abstract class:

public override string ToString()
{
    return Id + " Area = " + string.Format("{0:F2}",Area);
}

I thought override is used to provide/override implementation after extending from an abstract or virtual class, but I don't understand why there's an override method within an abstract class.

Answer 1

All classes derived from class System.Object ( ultimate base class of all classes in the .NET Framework ).

Class Shape in the example is overriding ToString() method from class System.Object .