Is it possible to do static partial classes?

Question

I want to take a class I have and split it up into several little classes so it becomes easier to maintain and read. But this class that I try to split using partial is a static class.

I saw in an example on Stackoverflow that this was possible to do but when I do it, it keeps telling me that I cannot derive from a static class as static classes must derive from object.

So I have this setup:

public static class Facade
{
    // A few general methods that other partial facades will use
}

public static partial class MachineFacade : Facade
{
    // Methods that are specifically for Machine Queries in our Database
}

Any pointers? I want the Facade class to be static so that I don't have to initialize it before use.

Answer 1

Keep naming and modifiers consistent across files:

public static partial class Facade
{
    // A few general methods that other partial facades will use
}

public static partial class Facade
{
    // Methods that are specifically for Machine Queries in our Database
}

Answer 2

The problem is not that the class is a partial class. The problem is that you try to derive a static class from another one. There is no point in deriving a static class because you could not make use Polymorphism and other reasons for inheritance.

If you want to define a partial class, create the class with the same name and access modifier.