What is the use of ‘abstract override’ in C#?

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There’s a useful example for this on Microsoft Docs – basically you can force a derived class to provide a new implementation for a method.

public class D
{
    public virtual void DoWork(int i)
    {
        // Original implementation.
    }
}

public abstract class E : D
{
    public abstract override void DoWork(int i);
}

public class F : E
{
    public override void DoWork(int i)
    {
        // New implementation.
    }
}

If a virtual method is declared abstract, it is still virtual to any
class inheriting from the abstract class. A class inheriting an
abstract method cannot access the original implementation of the
method—in the previous example, DoWork on class F cannot call DoWork
on class D. In this way, an abstract class can force derived classes
to provide new method implementations for virtual methods.

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