Andy,
As you have figured out, Multiple Inheritance (MI) is not supported in
..NET (it is supported in Eiffel, but it is not true MI, but rather, an
obfuscation based on interfaces).
To get around this, I would declare a base class of CControlEx (which
should be named ControlEx, the naming guidelines for .NET indicate that you
should not use C in front of class names to identify them as classes), and
then derive CComboBox2 from CControlEx. CControlEx would declare
nDescriptionId and strDescription, which would be marked as protected (or
have protected properties wrapping the private member names). Then,
DoSomething would access those members. Also, you might want to declare
DoSomething as virtual, which would allow you to have a base implementation,
but a custom one if needed in a derived class.
Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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"Andy Meyer" <am****@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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Hi all,
I'm converting some C++ Controls to C# and there's one big thing, that
I can't solve:
class CControlEx
{
int nDescriptionID;
CString strDescription;
public:
//works with nDescriptionID & strDescription
void DoSomething();
};
with this class I create the following
class CComboBox2 : public CComboBox, CControlEx
{
...
};
class CEdit2 : public CEdit, CControlEx
{
...
};
...
The advantage is that I have to code the logic for DoSomething in all
of my derivations only once.
In C# I use interfaces and it works fine, but is there a workaround,
so that I don't have to code the same thing for DoSomething in all of
my classes?
Attributes and Reflection aren't a solution, because the values of
nDescriptionID and strDescription may change at runtime.
Thanks in advance
Andy
