Is it ok to throw NotImplemented exception in virtual methods?

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Published on 2010-05-15T19:10:59Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 19:14 UTC
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I have a base class for some plugin-style stuff, and there are some methods that are absolutely required to be implemented.

I currently declare those in the base class as virtual, for example

public virtual void Save
{
    throw new NotImplementedException();
}

and in the descendand I have a

public override void Save()
{
    //do stuff
}

Is it a good practice to throw a NotImplementedException there? The descendand classes could for example be the modules for handling different file formats. Thanks

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