how to turn off a public member in a derived class

[Hu Flung Dung]

What about something like this:

public class MyClassA

     Public Property Whatever
         ...
      End Property

End Class

Public Class MyClassB
           inherits MyClassA

           Private Shadows Property Whatever
             ...
           End Property

End Class

I havn't tried it yet, but I'm 99% sure it will work.

EDIT:

Never mind. It doesn't work (darn).

However, it just occured to me, that you really shouldn't be allowed to do this. Inheritance, by definition, allows derived classes to work exactly the same way as their base classes. If certain members have a different scope in derived classes, you completely lose that compatibility. (Example: I often pass a Bitmap object to the Graphics.drawImage procedure, eventhough drawImage accepts only the Image object. Since Bitmap is inherited from Image, I can often use them interchangably).