Why am I getting this error when overriding an inherited method?

Posted by Sergio Tapia on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Sergio Tapia
Published on 2010-02-05T01:28:20Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 22:34 UTC
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Here's my parent class:

    public abstract class BaseFile
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string FileType { get; set; }
        public long Size { get; set; }
        public DateTime CreationDate { get; set; }
        public DateTime ModificationDate { get; set; }

        public abstract void GetFileInformation();
        public abstract void GetThumbnail();

    }

And here's the class that's inheriting it:

    public class Picture:BaseFile
    {
        public override void  GetFileInformation(string filePath)
        {
            FileInfo fileInformation = new FileInfo(filePath);
            if (fileInformation.Exists)
            {
                Name = fileInformation.Name;
                FileType = fileInformation.Extension;
                Size = fileInformation.Length;
                CreationDate = fileInformation.CreationTime;
                ModificationDate = fileInformation.LastWriteTime;
            }
        }

        public override void GetThumbnail()
        {

        }
    }

I thought when a method was overridden, I could do what I wanted with it. Any help please? :)

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