Inheritance Question wrt Base Class Data

[David Stephen]

I have a base class for a class that I store general configuration data. I load this data into a copy of the base class X in the main application.
Is it possible to copy the data from class X to the base class of another class Y
ie

Public Class Base()
Private Name as string
End Class

Public Class Class1()
Inherits Base
Private Value as String
End Class

dim X as new Base()
X.Name = "Test"

dim Y as new Class1()

I would like to do something like
Y.MyBase = X
or some serialization if possible

rather than copying each member value across.

Thank you