Off the top of my head, from what I know you can do it from the constructor of the derived class:

public DerivedClass (string myParam) : base("TableName")
{
 yada, yada, yada.
}

The parameter list gets run first, so that involves the call to the base class constructor.

Just to practice my knowledge, you can also use "this" in the param list to specify another constructor in the same class. So if you have:

1) A constructor that accepts 2 params, a first and last name
2) A constructor that accepts 3 params, first name, last name and ssn

You can have the 2nd constructor header

public myConstructor(string mySsn) : this(string first, string last)

So you only write the constructor code to process name once.


>>>You can add a call to base after setting the tablename field value<
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>No, John ... you can't do that in the constructor of a class.
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>I'm sure there's a way to do what Rick wants to do, but I'm not coming up with it off the top of my head. Maybe I need to sleep on it. <s>
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>~~Bonnie
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>>>
>>>public class AuthorBizObj: BizObj
>>>{
>>>   public AuthorBizObj()
>>>   {
>>>      this.TableName="Authors";
>>>   }
>>>}
>>>

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>>You can add a call to base after setting the tablename field value