I answered a question on the newsgroups on how *exactly* inheritence works when you use it implement UDTs in SQL Server 2005. Also wanted to record the explanation here....

It doesn't work like you'd expect inheritence to when to use T-SQL, because SQL Server is blissfully unaware of the inheritence relationships (they're not recorded in the system views).

So if the class Tiger inherits from the class Cat. Passing an instance of Tiger to the T-SQL stored procedure FeedTheCat:
create procedure FeedTheCat (@thecat Cat) .... -- T-SQL here --
wouldn't work.

-- (Msg 206: operand type clash dbo.Tiger is incompatible with dbo.Cat)
declare @t tiger
execute feedthecat @t

-- or this (Msg 529: explicit conversion ... is not allowed)
declare @c cat
set @c = cast(@t as cat)
execute feedthecat @c

If the Cat class has a public instance method called FeedMe and a public field called pawcount (both are inherited by Tiger), this wouldn't work in T-SQL:

-- this wouldn't work
declare @t Tiger
print @t.FeedMe()
print @t.pawcount

-- this would
declare @c Cat
print @c.FeedMe()
print @c.pawcount

You could, however, access these fields/methods on Tiger from .NET code, As in:
// works fine
Tiger t = new Tiger();
int paws = t.pawcount;
// so does this
SqlString s = t.FeedMe();

Calling it in .NET code *through SqlCommand.ExecuteReader* (CommandText = "select sometiger.pawcount from zootab") wouldn't work.