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honey the codewitch12-Aug-19 19:43
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Sander Rossel13-Aug-19 0:19
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Interesting.
With private fields it's no a problem at all.
The base field simply isn't accessible from the derived class.
The two fields are simply "BaseClass.someField" and "DerivedClass.someField".
Things get different when you make the base class field public.
C#
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(new Derived().SomeValue);
        Console.WriteLine(new Derived().BaseSomeValue);
    }
}

public class Whatever
{
    public string someValue;
}

public class Derived : Whatever
{
    private string someValue;

    public Derived()
    {
        base.someValue = "Base someValue.";
        someValue = "Witch someValue?"; // using 'this' does nothing.
    }

    public string SomeValue => someValue;
    public string BaseSomeValue => base.someValue;
}
This prints "Witch someValue?" and "Base someValue.", pretty much as you'd expect.
Visual Studio only gives me a warning that someValue hides an inherited base member and that I should use the new keyword if hiding was intended.
Basically, both are treated as separate variables, and settings someValue will not set someValue in the base class, neither will setting base.someValue do anything for someValue.
Adding the new keyword gets rid of the warning, but doesn't seem to change anything.

To get back to your specific example, same thing.
new Derived().foo will point to the property, new Base().foo will point to the field (assuming you meant it to be public).
And you get a warning that foo hides an inherited member so you should add the new keyword.

All in all it's pretty confusing and best avoided Smile | :)

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