overloaded constructor, access zero-argument constructor

[mblatch]

This is probably a C#-101 type question, but I've struck out on finding
an answer. I am setting up a class with a few overloaded constructors.
Inside those constructors, I would like to call the "default"
zero-argument constructor. The compiler gives me an error
"PC_StreamBuffe r is a type but is used like a variable". I've tried
adding "this." in front of references to PC_StreamBuffer (), but that
gives another compiler error. A simplified version of the class is as
follows:

class PC_StreamBuffer
{
private byte[] data;

public PC_StreamBuffer ()
{
length=0;
data=new byte[1000];
}

public PC_StreamBuffer (byte[] vals, int valsLength)
{
PC_StreamBuffer ();
this.Set(vals, valsLength);
}

public PC_StreamBuffer (byte[] vals)
{
PC_StreamBuffer ();
this.Set(vals);
}

<remainder of class methods removed>
}

Thanks,
Mike

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

mblatch <mb*****@yahoo. com> wrote:

This is probably a C#-101 type question, but I've struck out on finding
an answer. I am setting up a class with a few overloaded constructors.
Inside those constructors, I would like to call the "default"
zero-argument constructor. The compiler gives me an error
"PC_StreamBuffe r is a type but is used like a variable". I've tried
adding "this." in front of references to PC_StreamBuffer (), but that
gives another compiler error. A simplified version of the class is as
follows:

<snip>

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/constructors.html

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[SimonT]

You call one constructor from another like this :

public PC_StreamBuffer ()
{
length=0;
data=new byte[1000];
}

public PC_StreamBuffer (byte[] vals, int valsLength) : this()
{
this.Set(vals, valsLength);
}

public PC_StreamBuffer (byte[] vals) : this()
{
this.Set(vals);
}

"mblatch" wrote:

This is probably a C#-101 type question, but I've struck out on finding
an answer. I am setting up a class with a few overloaded constructors.
Inside those constructors, I would like to call the "default"
zero-argument constructor. The compiler gives me an error
"PC_StreamBuffe r is a type but is used like a variable". I've tried
adding "this." in front of references to PC_StreamBuffer (), but that
gives another compiler error. A simplified version of the class is as
follows:

class PC_StreamBuffer
{
private byte[] data;

public PC_StreamBuffer ()
{
length=0;
data=new byte[1000];
}

public PC_StreamBuffer (byte[] vals, int valsLength)
{
PC_StreamBuffer ();
this.Set(vals, valsLength);
}

public PC_StreamBuffer (byte[] vals)
{
PC_StreamBuffer ();
this.Set(vals);
}

<remainder of class methods removed>
}

Thanks,
Mike

[mblatch]

Thanks to you both for the quick fix and references. That worked. I
appreciate it.

Mike