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Jedi Commymullah
Jedi Commymullah

Reputation: 131

inheriting a read-only property

In Microsoft documentation, the declaration for the read-only property Controls of the Control class is as so:

[BrowsableAttribute(false)]
public Control.ControlCollection Controls { get; }

I am inheriting this property. And hiding it:

[EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
[BrowsableAttribute(false)]
[ComVisible(false)]
public new Control.ControlCollection Controls { get; }

but this doesn't compile? Error: ‘UserControl1.Controls.get’ must declare a body because it is not marked abstract or extern. Automatically implemented properties must define both get and set accessors.

So I change it:

[EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
[BrowsableAttribute(false)]
[ComVisible(false)]
public new Control.ControlCollection Controls { 
    get { return null; } }

Which does compile. But I need a bit of the properties functionality, and not to completely nullify it. (I must apologize to the early respondents to this post for my considerable edit here.) (Within 30 seconds!!)
I must change my script... so I try:

[EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
[BrowsableAttribute(false)]
[ComVisible(false)]
public new Control.ControlCollection Controls { get; private set; }

This too won't compile: Error: The accessibility modifier of the 'UserControl1.Controls.set' accessor must be more restrictive than the property or indexer 'UserControl1.Controls'

What's to be done about this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 92

Answers (1)

Philip Stuyck
Philip Stuyck

Reputation: 7447

This is what I suggest.

[EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
[BrowsableAttribute(false)]
[ComVisible(false)]
public new Control.ControlCollection Controls { 
    get { return base.Controls; } }

Upvotes: 1

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