Inheritance of Properties in C#-CodePudding

How to prevent inheritance of a property, so that it is no longer counted in the instantiated object. In the following example, I want object instance B to contain just two properties, namely MyCommonProperty and Name.

Properties must remain public

public class A
{
    public string MyCommonProperty { get; set; }
    public string MyClassASpecificProperty { get; set; }
}
public class B : A
{   
    public string Name { get; set; }    
}

CodePudding user response：

you can't, but you can:

create a Base Class X with only "MyCommonProperty" and have both A and B inherit from it adding their property.

"MyCommonProperty" is actually in a interface which both class implement

CodePudding user response：

Change the modifier of the properties you don't want inherited types to access to private.

CodePudding user response：

Don't use inheritance when inheritance isn't applicable. Two unrelated classes can still have a common interface without inheritance if you specify an explicit interface:

public interface ICommonThings
{
    string SomeProperty { get; set; }
}

public class Thing1 : ICommonThings
{
    public string Thing1Stuff { get; set; }
    public string SomeProperty { get; set; }
}

public class Thing2 : ICommonThings
{
    public string Thing2Stuff { get; set; }
    public string SomeProperty { get; set; }
}

CodePudding user response：

In the same line as Mathieu Guindon suggested, you could use explicit interface implementation to "hide" the property, but I don't see it be a good idea. The trickery would go as follow:

public interface IFoo
{
    public string MyCommonProperty { get; set; }
    public string MyClassASpecificProperty { get; set; }
}

public class A : IFoo
{
    public string MyCommonProperty { get; set; }
    string string MyClassASpecificProperty { get; set; }
}

public class B : IFoo
{
    public string MyCommonProperty { get; set; }
    public string Name{ get; set; }

    string IFoo.MyClassASpecificProperty { get; set;}
}