Referencing a Collections Item's Parent Class (Containing Class)

Question

I need to retrieve a property value from the parent class of a collection item. how do i reference the class at runtime?

Answer 1

There is no way to do this, unless you've saved the parent inside of the class.

This is because there really can't be a way to do it.  Say you have nothing but an instance of "SomeClass" -

    SomeClass theClassInstance = classList[3];

There'd be no way to get "classList" from that, since it could be:

1) Not stored in a collection
2) Stored in a collection multiple times
3) Stored in multiple collections

If, however, you need this for your particular scenario, what you could do is have a custom collection implementation, and save a reference to it in each member.

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Reed Copsey, Jr. - http://reedcopsey.com