“new” keyword in property declaration in c#

Question

I\'ve been given a .net project to maintain. I was just browsing through the code and I noticed this on a property declaration:

public new string navUrl
{
           


        

Answer 1

It hides the navUrl property of the base class. See new Modifier. As mentioned in that MSDN entry, you can access the "hidden" property with fully qualified names: BaseClass.navUrl. Abuse of either can result in massive confusion and possible insanity (i.e. broken code).