F# Inherit from C# class + access protected fields

Question

I have this base class that creates a new SQL Server connection and does some utility methods in C#, I want to inherit in F#. Currently I cannot access the protected fields in t

Answer 1

See related questions:

• F# - How to access protected member

• Why isn't there a protected access modifier in F#?

Basically I think you can't do it from within a let because it's actually in the context of an implicit lambda.

Answer 2

You can add a self-identifier to the constructor:

type Transfer ( server : string, db : string ) as this = 
  inherit SQL(server, db)  
  let accessAbstractConn = this.conn

or, use the base keyword:

type Transfer ( server : string, db : string ) = 
  inherit SQL(server, db)  
  let accessAbstractConn = base.conn