Hi,

Using inheritance, doesn't 'protected' mean that derived classes can
access that data if specified as protected in the base class ?

Aparently not: ViewState property is declared as protected in the
Control class. ListBox inherits (indirectly) from Control but the
ViewState property can not be accessed ???

It generates following compiler error : 
 "Cannot access protected member 
 'System.Web.UI.Control.ViewState' via a qualifier of type 
 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListBox'; the qualifier must be of 
 type 'PageCounter' (or derived from it)"

How come ?

Thank you
Chris

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On 10 Aug, 11:30, Chris Peeters  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Using inheritance, doesn't 'protected' mean that derived classes can
> access that data if specified as protected in the base class ?
>
> Aparently not: ViewState property is declared as protected in the
> Control class. ListBox inherits (indirectly) from Control but the
> ViewState property can not be accessed ???
>
> It generates following compiler error :
>  "Cannot access protected member
>  'System.Web.UI.Control.ViewState' via a qualifier of type
>  'System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListBox'; the qualifier must be of
>  type 'PageCounter' (or derived from it)"
>
> How come ?
>
> Thank you
> Chris
>
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Hi Chris,

Are you writing a derived class?

Perhaps you could post some code to clarify the problem you're having?


Brett.

Hello,

I just try to type in Page_Load()

  lstColors.ViewState["test"] = 0;

with lstColors defined as a normal  asp-ListBox.

ViewState is the inherited property.

but I realised what i am doing wrong:

I try to access the listbox-protected property from a different class,
page-class , which is not allowed of course !
Page class can only access its own inherited ViewState-property.

thanks anyway
Chris

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