Question

I am trying to implement a new class inherited from List<string>, to load the contents from a text file to the items.

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;

public class ListExt : List<string>
{
    string baseDirectory;

    public void LoadFromFile(string FileName)
    {
        //does not work because _list is private
        this._items = File.ReadAllLines(FileName).ToList();
    }
}

But I dont know how to load the lines into the _items property because it is private.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

ListExt is the list – so you can just call AddRange on yourself. You can’t reassign the list – that would essentially be changing this.