Say I have three classes. A base class Person and two other classes (Employee and Manager) each inherits from Person.
Public Class Person
Public Property Name As String
Public Overridable ReadOnly Property Salary As Decimal
Get
Return 0
End Get
End Property
Public Sub New()
End Sub
End Class
Class Employee:
Public Class Employee
Inherits Person
Overrides ReadOnly Property Salary As Decimal
Get
Return 100
End Get
End Property
Sub New()
MyBase.New()
End Sub
End Class
Class Manager:
Public Class Manager
Inherits Person
Overrides ReadOnly Property Salary As Decimal
Get
Return 1000
End Get
End Property
Sub New()
MyBase.New()
End Sub
End Class
My problem is how to create a new Person(based on a ListBox) that can be either Person/Employeeor Manager and retrieve the Salary Property without going through Select Case or If-else in the ListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged event. To do this selection, I have added another class, named Identify, that takes the selected index of the Listbox and pass it to getProsonType method and return the selected category. Please look at my code below.
The form1 code looks like:
Public Class Form1
Private P As Identify
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles
MyBase.Load
ListBox1.Items.Add("Person")
ListBox1.Items.Add("Employee")
ListBox1.Items.Add("Manager")
End Sub
Private Sub ListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(sender As Object, e As
EventArgs) Handles ListBox1.SelectedIndexChanged
P = New Identify(CType(ListBox1.SelectedIndex, PersonType))
Dim PGeneral As Person
PGeneral = P.GeneralPerson
Label1.Text = PGeneral.Salary
End Sub
End Class
I have assigned the three types to a public Enum PersonType just to restrict the selection.
Public Enum PersonType
Person = 0
Employee = 1
Manager = 2
End Enum
The Identity Class looks like:
Public Class Identify
Public Property PType As PersonType
Public ReadOnly Property GeneralPerson As Person
Get
Return getProsonType(PType)
End Get
End Property
Private Function getProsonType(ByVal SomeOne As PersonType) As Person
Dim pp As Person
Select Case SomeOne
Case PersonType.Person
pp = New Person()
Case PersonType.Employee
pp = New Employee()
Case PersonType.Manager
pp = New Manager()
End Select
Return GeneralPerson
End Function
Sub New(ByVal PersonType As PersonType)
Me.PType = PersonType
End Sub
End Class
After running the project I get the error System.StackOverflowException. I am not sure if this is the cleanest or the correct way to do this and I looked in many places and reached this dead end! Please help me to correct this or find a better way. Thanks in advance.