problems with static members

[codymanix]

Hi I have following weird problem:

I Have a class with the Name CustomerListView which contains a static field.
Additionally I have a Property in another class which returns a
CustomerListView, and its name is also CustomerListView:

class CustomerListView
{
public const int A = 0;
}

class Test
{
CustomerListView CustomerListView;

Test()
{
int i = CustomerListView.A; // compile error here!!!
}
}

I know I could rename either the class or the field CustomerListView. But,
theoretically, what if I couldn't rename them because the field
CustomerListView is defined in the base class which resides in a thrid party
library?

Is it possible to access the static field A (without using reflection)???

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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

codymanix <no****************@gmx.net> wrote:

I Have a class with the Name CustomerListView which contains a static field.
Additionally I have a Property in another class which returns a
CustomerListView, and its name is also CustomerListView:

class CustomerListView
{
public const int A = 0;
}

class Test
{
CustomerListView CustomerListView;

Test()
{
int i = CustomerListView.A; // compile error here!!!
}
}

What compile error are you getting? The only one I'm getting is that i
isn't used...

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[cody]

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codymanix <no****************@gmx.net> wrote:

I Have a class with the Name CustomerListView which contains a static field. Additionally I have a Property in another class which returns a
CustomerListView, and its name is also CustomerListView:
[..]

What compile error are you getting? The only one I'm getting is that i
isn't used...

Sorry the code I posted was not correct, that means It was correct but it
should not be compile correct you know :)
Here is the real code:

class CustomerListView
{
public const int A = 0;
}
class Test
{
ListView CustomerListView;
public Test()
{
int i = CustomerListView.A; // compile error here!!!
}
}

Iam getting the error that "A" woulöd not be defined in ListView, because
there seems to be no way to explicitly tell the compiler that a mean the
field CustomerListView, nmot the class CustomerListView. I consider this a
serious design error in the C# programming language.

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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

cody <do*********************@gmx.de> wrote:

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Iam getting the error that "A" woulöd not be defined in ListView, because
there seems to be no way to explicitly tell the compiler that a mean the
field CustomerListView, nmot the class CustomerListView. I consider this a
serious design error in the C# programming language.

I don't think I'd call it a *serious* design error, but it could cause
a problem - *unless* the class in question is in a namespace, in which
case you can just use the fully qualified name of the class instead.
And in my experience, *all* production classes should be in a
namespace.

Oh, and I've just found another way of doing it - with a using alias:

using CustomerListViewClass = CustomerListView;

....

int i = CustomerListViewClass.A;

Not ideal, but it works.

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