Dear Inheritance - A question for you

[Gulfraz Khan]

Is it possible to hide any public method or public property of the base class when inheriting that class. If yes, then how? Infact I am creating a custom control by inheriting a ScrollableControl and I don't want to show the AutoScroll property to user of my control (developer). Thanks -- modified at 12:39 Thursday 10th November, 2005

[leppie]

Gulfraz Khan wrote:

Is it possible to hide any public method or public property of the base class when inheriting that class.

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[Colin Angus Mackay]

That's a good short answer there. Direct and to the point!

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[Robert Rohde]

Absolutely hiding isn't possible. But there are a few tricks to accomplish what you are trying to do. Have a look at this snippet:

[Browsable(false), EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
public override bool AutoScroll
{
get { return base.AutoScroll; }
set {}
}

- It will disable Intellisense in the designer. - It will hide it from the properties window. - It won't allow any changes to this property Note that if a user of your control types yourClass.AutoScroll = false then the compiler won't give any error... but who said that solution was perfect ;). But if you also add the Obsolete attribute then intellisense will at least give him a hint.