Constructors?

[Arpan]

The ASP.NET book that I am referring to learn ASP.NET says the
following:

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If you don't provide a constructor that doesn't take any parameters,
you cannot do the following:

Dim mObject As New MyObject
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Now isn't the above line (not the code line) wrong since ASP.NET
implicitly creates a no-argument constructor with the name "New" if a
class doesn't have a constructor? Hence the above code line is very
much valid, isn't it?

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks,

Arpan

[Laurent Bugnion]

Hi,

Arpan wrote:

The ASP.NET book that I am referring to learn ASP.NET says the
following:

----------------
If you don't provide a constructor that doesn't take any parameters,
you cannot do the following:

Dim mObject As New MyObject
----------------

Now isn't the above line (not the code line) wrong since ASP.NET
implicitly creates a no-argument constructor with the name "New" if a
class doesn't have a constructor? Hence the above code line is very
much valid, isn't it?

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks,

Arpan

(Please allow me to write the example in C#, as I am not fluent in
VB.NET and wouldn't want to write wrong code)

That's only true if you don't provide *any* constructor. If you provide
a constructor with (for example)

public MyObject( string param1 )
{
// ...
}

then no empty constructor is created. Sometimes, as a developer, you
just don't want to allow empty constructors for your class.

HTH,
Laurent
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