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As I was adding support for <wfw:commentRss>, I decided to seal my Page class that implemented my CommentRss.aspx page. You know, something like this:
public sealed class CommentRss : System.Web.UI.Page {
// ...
}
Oh, man, was that a bad idea! I started getting all sorts of weird parsing errors, but since my custom error page was showing all sorts of goofy tag parsing errors it took me a while before I finally set customErrors to RemoteOnly and pruned the source code before I finally saw this:
Compiler Error Message: CS0509: 'ASP.CommentRss_aspx' : cannot inherit from sealed class 'JasonBockDotNet.Web.Pages.CommentRss'
Oops! I tend to seal my classes by default, but I usually don’t do much ASP.NET development, and when I do I usually leave the code-behind file alone. For some reason I thought I’d be a super-assuming genius and just mark the class as sealed - I mean, c’mon, how much harm could one possibly create by doing that? Apparently, quite a lot!
Published: 01.22.2005 05:41:40 PM CST