Stack overflow exception thrown from overridden property from abstract base class

Question

I have a base class with the following (trimmed for brevity) declaration:

public abstract class MyBaseClass
{    
  public int RecordId { get; private set; }
  p         


        

Answer 1

The abstract property declaration in the base class just states: "derived classes MUST implement a property called Status, with a getter and setter". In your derived class, calling this.Status inside your getter is illegal (causes the stack overflow).

To fix this, use a property with a backing field in your derived class:

public abstract class MyBaseClass
{
    public abstract string Status { get; set; }
}


public class MySpecificClass : MyBaseClass
{
   private string _status;
   public override string Status
   {
       get
       {
          if(this._status == "something")
            return "some status";
          else
            return "some other status";
       }
       set
       {
           _status = value;
       }
   }

}