Your class "SuperClass" inherits ConfigurationElement. The ConfigurationElement class has a default indexer which takes a ConfigurationProperty value and returns a string.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Josh <[email protected]> wrote: > I just moved to a new project that is written in C#, one of my > languages of choice, and have been sifting through the source code to > familiarize myself with what I'll be working with. > > I found a class that has left me stumped, even after reading through > the C# Language Specification. Is there anyone out there that could > enlighten me? Google, so far, hasn't been able to. The following is > an example of what I've found: > > class SuperClass : ConfigurationElement > { > private static ConfigurationProperty mValue; > > [ConfigurationProperty("value", IsRequired = true)] > public string Value > { > get { return (string)base[mValue]; } > } > } > > I'm at a loss as to how mValue is being returned when it isn't a > member of the .NET ConfigurationProperty class, and I've written > myself a little console test program to play around with inheriting > the ConfigurationProperty class and doing base[] calls, but every time > I define a new member in the super class and attempt to access it via > the base[] statement, it fails to find the member, which actually > makes sense to me. What am I missing?
