>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>>Are you looking for new ?
>>>>>
>>>>>Yes! I forgotten about that usage but as soon as I saw the line above I knew what you were suggesting!
>>>>>
>>>>>Should work fine. Thanks,
>>>>>Viv
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Viv,
>>>>
>>>>Hear my confession. I had not forgotten about that usage - I simply didn't know about it.
>>>>
>>>>I tried without the new (and the stuff in the main) and whilst debugging OrderB I saw that it still had the 'old' (base) List and that the old List was hidden.
>>>>
>>>>In all honesty - it was the compiler that suggested the new keyword
>>>
>>>Didn't do it for me :-{
>>>I spent a while trying to work out why I couldn't do an explicit/implicit type conversion ......
>>>Seems like my whole day today was taken up with either frustration because I didn't know how to do something or boredom because I did (and had to spend time doing it...)
>>>
>>>BTW, it DID work fine.......
>>>Thx again,
>>>Viv
>>
>>Viv,
>>
>>If you take the code from yesterday and omit the 'new' keyword, then hit F6, I get this
>>
>>

>>Warning	3	'OrderB.OrderItems' hides inherited member 'Order.OrderItems'. Use the new keyword if hiding was intended.	D:\vs\Project\Test\Test\Test\Test.cs	66	26	Test
>>

>
>Hi,
>I've seen that before - just didn't see it in this case (probably because I didn't try overriding....

You only see it if you don't 'override'. Once you do - it's gone