C# inheritance issue

Question

I'm using an API that has a "Member" class. I wish to extend this so i have create "MemberProfile" which inherits from "Member"

I have some issue creating the constructor for this class. I wish to something like the following

    var member = Member.GetCurrentMember();
    var memberProfile = new MemberProfile(member);

How would the constructor on MemberProfile look. Do i need to do some kind of cast?

Answer 1

I suggest adding a Member field to the MemberProfile class and initialize it in the constructor. Don't inherit from Member.

public class MemberProfile {
    public Member Member { get; private set; }
    public MemberProfile(Member member) { Member = member; }
}

If you really want to inherit from Member, you'll have to copy all the properties off the passed argument to the new instance manually.