Question

I have defined an interface, an abstract class that implements that interface and a class that derives from the abstract class. I need the interface because I am using a dynamic loader to implement the plugins and I created an abstract class to implement a few things that all plugins will have.

Now I want to implement a class-wide string as a name. What I created is this:

public interface IDevicePlugin {
    string name { get; }
}

abstract public class DevicePlugin : IDevicePlugin {
    abstract public string name { get; }
}


public class somePlugin : DevicePlugin, IDevicePlugin {
    public override string name {
        get {
            return "my name";
        }
    }
}

But this gives me the error “cannot override because ‘name’ is not a property’. If I remove the override, it says it is hiding the inherited member ‘name’.

How do I correctly implement this?

Answer 1

It doesn’t error for me, but… I suspect that this is because you are re-implementing the interface. Drop the , IDevicePlugin in somePlugin:

public class somePlugin : DevicePlugin {
    public override string name {
        get { return "my name"; }
    }
}

It inherits the interface from the parent class.