Question

I have a "meter" class. One property of "meter" is another class called "production".
I need to access to a property of meter class (power rating) from production class by reference. The powerRating is not known at the instantiation of Meter.

How can I do that?

public class Meter
{
   private int _powerRating = 0; 
   private Production _production;

   public Meter()
   {
      _production = new Production();
   }
}

Answer 1

Store a reference to the meter instance as a member in Production:

public class Production {
  //The other members, properties etc...
  private Meter m;

  Production(Meter m) {
    this.m = m;
  }
}

And then in the Meter-class:

public class Meter
{
   private int _powerRating = 0; 
   private Production _production;

   public Meter()
   {
      _production = new Production(this);
   }
}

Also note that you need to implement an accessor method/property so that the Production class can actually access the powerRating member of the Meter class.