Does this keyword exist? When an overriding method needs to call the parent

Question

Often, in C# documentation, you come across a member where the description says something along the lines of \"be sure to call the base method if you override this.\"

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Answer 1

You can call it like this:

public override void MyFunction()
{
    // do dome stuff
    SomeStuff();

   // call the base implementation
   base.MyFunction();
}

But if you're asking whether it can be "checked" at compile time - no.

You could probably use a dependency analysis tool such as NDepend to create rules to check this is being done, and have the rules run as part of the compile, but I don't think you can do the enforecement from the compiler itself.