Question about indexers

[druknhik]

I would like to do something like this:

 

Class.Property = something;

 

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

 

This won't work, because this doesn't 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 won't put the whole thing, it's rather large.

[PlausiblyDamp]

What version of the framework / VS are you using?

[druknhik]

What version of the framework / VS are you using?

 

I'm using VS 2005, I think it's 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 I'll have a look.