Question

Is it possible to ignore set and get when I’m assigning to or retrieving a value?

In specific, I’m inheriting from a class that has a property declared like this:

virtual public Int32 Value { get; set; }

What I’d like to do is to override it and do something useful in those set and get’s. The problem appears when I override it, I also have to manually assign, or return the value from the property. If I do something like this:

override public Int32 Value
{
    get
    {
        return this.Value;
    }
    set
    {
        this.Value = value;
        // do something useful
    }

Then I’m creating an infinite loop. Is there a way to set or get the value without invoking the code in set and get, or do I have to make a separate name for the actual variable?

Answer 1

Instead of using this.Value, you should be using base.Value. That will retrieve/set the property in the base class.

Note that the base method actually has to be overridable (virtual or abstract); in your example it’s not. If the base method is not virtual then you’ll just get a compiler error when you try to override in the derived class.