Question about indexers

[druknhik]

I would like to do something like this:

Class.Property = something;

[] is the indexer for some List<> in Class.

This wont work, because this doesnt seem to return a reference to the object whose property I would like to modify.

In C++, would have been able to do something like this easily by overloading the [] operator, and making it return a reference.

How could I do the same in C#?

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

Could you post your code for how you have defined the indexer and the class it returns?

 

[druknhik]

Could you post your code for how you have defined the indexer and the class it returns?

public Class this[int index]
{
get
{
return Elements[index];
}
set
{
Elements[index] = value;
}
}

Elements is a List<Class>

Did you ask me to show how Class is defined? If so, there has to something you would like to see...I wont put the whole thing, its rather large.

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

What version of the framework / VS are you using?

 

[druknhik]

What version of the framework / VS are you using?

Im using VS 2005, I think its the framework is ver 2.0

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

public Class this[int index] should return an instance of Class - you should have access to all the properties and methods of Class. What properties / methods is it displaying instead?

 

[druknhik]

public Class this[int index] should return an instance of Class - you should have access to all the properties and methods of Class. What properties / methods is it displaying instead?

In the watch, it displays everything like it should.

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

Tried it here with a simple class and it worked aas expected, feel free to post / attach your code and Ill have a look.