Unexpected behaviour of MyClass (please ignore 1st post)

[Diana Mueller]

Public Class Base
Public Function Foo() As String
Return MyClass.GetType.FullName
End Function

End Class

Public Class Derrived
Inherits Base
End Class

Why does Derrived.Foo() return "Derrived"? Shouldn't that be "Base"?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Public Class Base
Public Function Foo() As String
Return MyClass.GetType.FullName
End Function

End Class

Public Class Derrived
Inherits Base
End Class

Why does Derrived.Foo() return "Derrived"? Shouldn't that be "Base"?

If you instantiate 'Derived' and call 'Foo' on this object, the object's
most specific type is 'Derived', and thus "Derived" is returned.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Diana,

Because you are doing a methnod which is in MyClass which returns the type
of the current instance and not from the used class

Than it would have been
Gettype(Base).FullName

I hope this helps,

Cor