Question

I want to inherit from a Forms.Timer control as I’d like to add a method to it, however it needs to be passed a System.ComponentModel.Container to it on instantiation, which would need passed to the base class.

I have got the following which won’t compile:

class Timer : System.Windows.Forms.Timer
    {

        public Timer() : base (System.ComponentModel.Container)
        {

        }

        public static bool IsTimeToActivate()
        {
            return false;
        }
    }

With the Container argument being flagged as:

Class name not valid at this point

Am I missing some fundamental understanding here?

Answer 1

If all you want to do is add a method to the timer, I think an extension method is a better solution:

 public static class TimerExtensions
 {
     public static MyTimerExtension(this Timer timer)
     {
         // use timer here just as any method parameter
     }
 }

 //usage

 timer1.MyTimerExtension();