PIEBALDconsult wrote:

jofli wrote: Recieved And maybe didn't graduate high school either? Big Grin

http://www.recieved.co.uk/[^] Well, at least he tried to use English namings. And I must admit that sometimes it's not that easy, if you're not a native speaker.

That's right, but afaik he only codes c#.

Reflector showed me this 'gem' in a contractors project:

string cBRK = Convert.ToChar(int.Parse("13")).ToString() + Convert.ToChar(int.Parse("10")).ToString();

this.ReportStatus("93101Bytes" + cBRK + BytesRecieved.ToString() + cBRK + fileSize.ToString() + cBRK);

kind regards, JoFli

I like this solution! Even if i tried to avoid doing a cast, this one seems elegant to me. Thank You for that. But i'm still curious why this (OP) is not allowed ...

I'm facing this problem in several situations and i'm pretty sure this is an architectural question. This would be a good sample: There is a mask with a persons list and some search fields. I have a ViewModel class which provides the data (List) and the filter object (PersonFilter) where the search fields are bound to (WPF). Later i want to build a customers mask. Where the Customer class is an extension of Person and the CustomerFilter an extension PersonFilter. So i would love to extend my ViewModel, but i cannot override my Filter Property. Even if i'm sure that there won't be a solution, which let me do it this way. I thought it is time time to ask here. Thanks and regards, Johannes

Hi Rahul, thanks! I understand that i'm not allowed to change the return type. But i thought it should be allowed to extend it. So from the perspective of 'Class_a' the return type will always be "Stream". I know that i could use 'new' instead of 'override', but that wouldn't be the same and won't work with abstracts. This rule doesn't make sense to me. regards, Johannes

Have you found any elegant solution for this?

Hi all, maybe someone can explain me, why this doesn't work in C#. Do i missed something, or is it a stupid idea to extend a return type of an override?

public class Class_a
{
Stream _something;

    public virtual Stream Property
    {
        get
        {
            return \_something; 
        }
        set
        {
            \_something = value; 
        }
    }
}

public class Class\_b : Class\_a
{
    FileStream \_something;
    
    public override FileStream Property
    {
        get
        {
            return \_something;
        }
        set
        {
            \_something = value;
        }
    }
}

Thanks & Regards, Johannes