Hi, Cyril,
Ultimately, having a class defined inside another class primarily impacts two things: the way you refer to the nested class (i.e., fully qualified from the outside world, though not to the enclosing class), and the permissions that the nested class ultimately exposes to the outside world (which are throttled by the access of the enclosing class). Beyond that, the internal class simply works like any other class. The outer class still needs to have member variables which reference that class, and the internal class would likewise need member variables to refer back to the enclosing class (if such was needed).
Personally, I always try to avoid using internal classes which need to refer back to enclosing classes -- if such commerce is always going to be required, then it's not clear why there would be a benefit to factoring code in that fashion in the first place. (In general, I try to avoid such back-references between *any* two classes, regardless of nesting, but sometimes that's not always possible and in any event is beside the point.)
There's more information on nested classes at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...components.asp which discusses the circumstances under which nested class usage makes sense.
Hope this helps!
--Matt--*
-----Original Message-----
From: Cyril Gupta
Posted At: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 8:26 AM
Posted To: microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb
Conversation: Accessing Owner class instance possible?
Subject: Accessing Owner class instance possible?
Hello,
I have a class inside another class. The Scenario is like Car->Engine, where
Car is a class with a set of properties and methods and Engine is another
class inside it with its own set of properties.
I want to know if there is a way to access the methods and the properties of
the Owner class for the class that's inside it? I.e. I want to find out
within Engine what make the Car is which is exposed by the property
Car.Model.
Is there any way I can do that?
:) Thanks for reading.
Cheers
Cyril Gupta
