Chap3

TJinWI · April 26th, 2012, 09:01 AM

I've made the changes to OfficeEmployee and Person. Stepping into the code I see that it goes to the Person class for the ToString method but the problem is the name has never been assigned to the mname string. The name assignments have been captured in the Employee class. I can see this when I look inthe Locals window. mName is empty but mNames has two entries; one for Informal and Normal respectively.

What am I missing? Any help appreciated.

ksharkey · April 27th, 2012, 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TJinWI

I've made the changes to OfficeEmployee and Person. Stepping into the code I see that it goes to the Person class for the ToString method but the problem is the name has never been assigned to the mname string. The name assignments have been captured in the Employee class. I can see this when I look inthe Locals window. mName is empty but mNames has two entries; one for Informal and Normal respectively.

What am I missing? Any help appreciated.

Hi,

Is there a chance you missed adding the code to write the Normal name to Person?

If type=NameTypes.Normal Then
MyBase.Name = value
End If

((From page 151, just before the Shadowing section))

TJinWI · April 30th, 2012, 05:19 PM

I've got that step. Here's what I have for My Name property. I may be causing myself some grief as I was not replacing code, as suggested, but simply commenting it out. Thanks for taking a stab at it though.

Code:

   Public Overloads Property Name(ByVal type As NameTypes) As String
	 Get
	    If mNames Is Nothing Then mNames = New Generic.Dictionary(Of NameTypes, String)
	    Return mNames(type)
	 End Get
	 Set(ByVal value As String)
	    If mNames Is Nothing Then mNames = New Generic.Dictionary(Of NameTypes, String)

	    If mNames.ContainsKey(type) Then
		  mNames.Item(type) = value
	    Else
		  mNames.Add(type, value)
	    End If

	    If type = NameTypes.Normal Then
		  MyBase.Name = value
	    End If
	 End Set
   End Property