access parent class?

[Justin Rich]

i have a class Workstations which inherits collectionbase.
basically Workstations is a collection of Workstation's

my workstations collection has a property called ValidatedCount

the workstation class has a method called Validate()

what i would like to do is use the Workstations class to have a count
(inherited from collectionbase) and have a ValidatedCount...

how do i access the parent class to increase the ValidatedCount property
from the Workstion object in the Workstations class?

Thanks
Justin

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

On Sep 11, 2:24 pm, "Justin Rich" <[e-mail]:

i have a class Workstations which inherits collectionbase.
basically Workstations is a collection of Workstation's

my workstations collection has a property called ValidatedCount

the workstation class has a method called Validate()

what i would like to do is use the Workstations class to have a count
(inherited from collectionbase) and have a ValidatedCount...

how do i access the parent class to increase the ValidatedCount property
from the Workstion object in the Workstations class?

There's no natural concept of a "parent" in this case - after all,
unless you've specifically precluded it, a Workstation could be part
of multiple Workstations collections.

Does it take long to validate a Workstation instance? If not, I'd just
make the ValidateCount iterate through all the Workstation instances
in the collection and call Validate on each of them.

Jon