WPF Adding new Property to Base Classes

[kimosavi]

Hi,

I have use Inherits <Base Class Name> with great results. But still there are things I don't understand or what options I have to designing or modifying classes.

In the past, I have created new classes with new properties to be used with the designer and on the code

example:

Class SecureRibbonButton
    Inherits RibbonButton
    Public Property Security As String
End Class

This will create a new class that I will use in my XAML that I will use as follow:

<my:SecureRibbonButton  x:Name="rbAuthenticate" LargeImageSource="/myAPP;component/img/png32/png32_login.png" Label="Login" Security="SEC_LOGIN" />

Currently I want to setup a process to add a new property to the RibbonButton Class (or any other baseclass) without creating a new class.

example:

Class RibbonButton
    Inherits RibbonButton
    Public Property Security As String
End Class

<RibbonButton  Name="rbAuthenticate" LargeImageSource="/myAPP;component/img/png32/png32_login.png" Label="Login" Security="SEC_LOGIN"/>

Is this possible?

 

[jmcilhinney]

No it's not possible. A class can't inherit itself. A RibbonButton either has a Security property or it doesn't.

 

[jmcilhinney]

Note that it is possible to declare a new class with the same name if it's in a different namespace, but it is still a different class.