“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

new is hiding the property.

It might be like this in your code:

class base1
{
    public virtual string navUrl
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

class derived : base1
{
    public new string navUrl
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

Here in the derived class, the navUrl property is hiding the base class property.