Question

My current code looks a little like this.

class BaseClass2
{
    public List<BaseClass1> list { get; set; }
}

class DerivedClass2 : BaseClass2
{
    public DerivedClass1A objA { get; set; }
    public DerivedClass1B objB  { get; set; }
}

What i have is a DerivedClass2 where i know the types of the list in the base class and i know there will be two types of DerivedClass1A and DerivedClass1B.

I could create new variables as above but i’d prefer not to use the memory and cleverly access and set the original list, how can i do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Do you mean something like this?

class DerivedClass2 : BaseClass2
{
    public DerivedClass1A objA
    {
        get
        {
            return (DerivedClass1A)base.list[0];
        }
        set
        {
            base.list[0] = value;
        }
    }

    public DerivedClass1B objB
    {
        get
        {
            return (DerivedClass1B)base.list[1];
        }
        set
        {
            base.list[1] = value;
        }
    }
}

That isn’t good design though… Why would you have that list? What are you really trying to do?