Get properties from derived class in base class

Question

How do I get properties from derived class in base class?

Base class:

public abstract class BaseModel {
    protected static readonly Dictionary

        

Answer 1

If you must do literally fetch property of derived class from within base class, you can use Reflection, for example - like this...

using System;
public class BaseModel
{
    public string getName()
    {
        return (string) this.GetType().GetProperty("Name").GetValue(this, null);
    }
}

public class SubModel : BaseModel
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

namespace Test
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            SubModel b = new SubModel();
            b.Name = "hello";
            System.Console.Out.WriteLine(b.getName()); //prints hello
        }
    }
}

This is not recommended, though, and you most probably should rethink your design like Matthew said.

As for not throwing properties to your base classes -- you can try to decouple base and deriving classes into unrelated objects and pass them via constructors.