Overriding an abstract property with a derived return type in c#

Question

I have four classes. Request, DerivedRequest, Handler, DerivedHandler. The Handler class has a property with the following declaration:

public abstract Request         


        

Answer 1

Edit: You can't change the type on a derived type, but new might help:

In the derived type...

public new DerivedRequest request
{
   get{return (DerivedRequest) base.request;}
   set{base.request = value;}
}
public override Request request
{
   get{return base.request;}
   set{base.request = (DerivedRequest) value;} // Throws InvalidCastException if misused.
}