@MustOverride annotation?

Question

In .NET, one can specify a \"mustoverride\" attribute to a method in a particular superclass to ensure that subclasses override that particular method. I was wondering whether

Answer 1

I'm not sure which attribute you're thinking about in .NET.

In VB you can apply the MustOverride modifier to a method, but that's just the equivalent to making the method abstract in Java. You don't need an attribute/annotation, as the concept is built into the languages. It's more than just applying metadata - there's also the crucial difference that an abstract method doesn't include any implementation itself.

If you do think there's such an attribute, please could you say which one you mean?