error CS0027: Keyword 'this' is not available in the current context

Question

I have the following initialization of a constructor:

public partial class WizardPage1 : WizardPage
{
    public WizardPage1()
        : base(0, getLocalizedString(this.GetType(), "PageTitle"))
    {
    }
}

where

public static string getLocalizedString(Type type, string strResID)
{
}

but this.GetType() part causes the following error:

error CS0027: Keyword 'this' is not available in the current context

Any idea how to resolve it?

Solution

The 'this' keyword refers to the current instance of the class. In the constructor, you don't have access to the instance because you are about to create one... So try below:

public partial class WizardPage1 : WizardPage
{
    public WizardPage1()
        : base(0, getLocalizedString(typeof(WizardPage1), "PageTitle"))
    {
    }
}

Comments

[c00000fd]

Is there any way to do it as typeof(this)? I'm afraid I may miss changing typeof(WizardPage1) part in a "template" class that may lead to trouble...

[M.Babcock]

@c00000fd - A possible alternative could be to use generics or reflection in the base class so it can glean what you mean automagically - but there's no bulletproof solution. If you can't trust your developers (including yourself) then plan for mistakes and hours of painful debugging.

[Damith]

@c00000fd can you update the question with base constructor code?