How to hide base class in assembly?

[mfc_mobile]

Hi,

I'm trying to develop a control and want to hide the base class of the
control, how do i do that?

I want to do something like the follow :-
internal class BaseClass {
}

public class SubClass : BaseClass {
}

but i get an Inconsistent accessibility error.

[Christof Nordiek]

Hi,

you can't hide a baseclass that way.
The baseclass of a class must be as accessible as the class itself.
So all code that can access a class also con access it's baseclasses.

But you could hide the members of the class.

Christof

"mfc_mobile" <mf********@newsgroup.nospam> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Hi,

I'm trying to develop a control and want to hide the base class of the
control, how do i do that?

I want to do something like the follow :-
internal class BaseClass {
}

public class SubClass : BaseClass {
}

but i get an Inconsistent accessibility error.

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

You could cheat and write a wrapper to provide a facade for the class such
as:

internal class baseclass
{
public void basemethod()
}

internal class derivedclass : baseclass
{
public void anothermethod;
}

public SeenClass
{
derivedclass dc=new derivedclass();

public basemethod()
{
dc.basemethod();
}

public void anothermethod()
{
dc.anothermethod();
}
}

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"mfc_mobile" <mf********@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
news:O7**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Hi,

I'm trying to develop a control and want to hide the base class of the
control, how do i do that?

I want to do something like the follow :-
internal class BaseClass {
}

public class SubClass : BaseClass {
}

but i get an Inconsistent accessibility error.

[cody]

You cannot hide the base class but you can make it impossible for anyone
else to create instances from it if you make its constructor protected.
"mfc_mobile" <mf********@newsgroup.nospam> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:O7**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Hi,

I'm trying to develop a control and want to hide the base class of the
control, how do i do that?

I want to do something like the follow :-
internal class BaseClass {
}

public class SubClass : BaseClass {
}

but i get an Inconsistent accessibility error.