VS 2008 Inheritance Question (or Maybe Not)?
Dec 15, 2009
I've not played with inheritance myself much as I've never really had a need to, but now I have a situation which to me seems the ideal time to learn. I'll explain:
This is a WPF application but that shouldnt make any difference to this question. Basically, I have asearch window that retrieves data from a database - I want this one search window to be able to retrieve any item (business object might be a better word than item) from the database and display the relevant data, rather than having a separate window for each 'type' of item in my program. So I have got 3 classes at the moment, ComputerAudit, ConnectionAudit, and SoftwareAudit and I want my one search window to be able to display any of these items in the listbox. Obviously there would only be one type of item displayed at once, so there wouldnt be a computeraudit item and a connectionaudit item displayed in the list at the same time, but there could be several computeraudit items displayed.
So I thought I could create a base class just named Audit and have those 3 classes I mentioned inherit from that, then I can specify the arguments to methods I am using as just being of type Audit (rather than using a specific type like ComputerAudit or SoftwareAudit) because then I should be able to pass around any of these items which inherit from Audit right? Well that doesnt seem to be the case so I'm wondering if I have misunderstood inheritance.
The problem I'm having specifically is that I have some methods which need to be able to accept any of my Audit subclasses but if I specify a generic List(Of Audit) then it wont let me pass in a List(Of ComputerAudit) for example. Is this because I'm using a List or am I just doing something fundamentally wrong?
EDIT: Found this page which confirms my suspicions that this is more to do with the List than general inheritance:[URL]...
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In my application i will use a customized datagridview for all the application, so instead of adding the normal datagridview and changing the properties, i created an user control and changed the inherited to datagridview... This have a problem i can't use the drag and drop...
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i am just trying to apply inheritance ..Below is my Code ... on which i am not getting the output on my Text_Box ... when in write it in a Child Class
Imports System
Imports System.Windows
Imports System.Windows.Forms
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Module Module1
Interface ISearch(Of T As ISearchResult)
Function ids() As List(Of T)
End Interface
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Dim c as Collection = new Collection
c.add(new A)
c.add(new B)
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ex .
Dim obj as S
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Form1
Public Class Form1
Private Sub But_Bell_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles But_Bell.Click
MessageBox.Show("Ding a ling")
End Sub
[code]....
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Public Class StopLine
Inherits Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.LineShape
Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()
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Implements BaseInterface1, BaseInterface2
End Class
That works fine for classes but I'd like to have an interface inheriting some base interfaces. Something like that:
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I searched quickly and not find an explicit answer at the following question:Why VB.NET (vs C#) does not "inherit" the constructors with parameters?
Public Class StopLine
Inherits Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.LineShape
Public Sub New()
[code].....
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How can I convert following code to VB.NET?
class A
{
public int NumberA { get; set; }
}
[code]....
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Class B
Inherits A
Implements IC
[code]....
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Imports System
Imports System.Collections
Imports System.Drawing
[code]....
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I have a parent class and many children class, right now it look like this:
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Public Property ID as String
End Class
[Code].....
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get around lack of multiple inheritance
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Public Class BaseCard
'Properties
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I have tried following:
Public Class BaseForm
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Friend WithEvents Button1 As System.Windows.Forms.Button
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