inheriting constructors in vb.net

[Brad Langhorst]

Books online says that constructors are not inherited in vb.net (grrr - why
not?)

I have a series of classes that share the same constructors and find myself
cutting and pasting when i make changes to them ... a sure sign of something
badly wrong.

How do you all deal with sharing this code?
I can't seem to find any sort of #include feature
Is there some option?

thanks!

brad

[Andrea Saltarello [MVP][UGIdotNET]]

> I have a series of classes that share the same constructors and find
myself

cutting and pasting when i make changes to them ... a sure sign of something badly wrong.
How do you all deal with sharing this code?
I can't seem to find any sort of #include feature
Is there some option?
you can call the base class constructor by means of the MyBase class. Here'
an example:
public class TheBase
public sub New()

end sub
end class

public class TheDerived : Inherits TheBase
public sub New()
MyBase.New()
end sub
end class
thanks!
HTH
brad

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[Andrea Saltarello [MVP][UGIdotNET]]

> I have a series of classes that share the same constructors and find
myself

cutting and pasting when i make changes to them ... a sure sign of something badly wrong.
How do you all deal with sharing this code?
I can't seem to find any sort of #include feature
Is there some option?
you can call the base class constructor by means of the MyBase class. Here'
an example:
public class TheBase
public sub New()

end sub
end class

public class TheDerived : Inherits TheBase
public sub New()
MyBase.New()
end sub
end class
thanks!
HTH
brad

--
..A [Microsoft MVP .NET]
UGIdotNET - User Group Italiano .NET
http://www.ugidotnet.org
Read my blog at: http://www.ugidotnet.org/4.blog

[Brad Langhorst]

"Andrea Saltarello [MVP][UGIdotNET]" <pa*********************@phaseit.com>
wrote in message news:OM**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

I have a series of classes that share the same constructors and find myself

cutting and pasting when i make changes to them ... a sure sign of

something

badly wrong.
How do you all deal with sharing this code?
I can't seem to find any sort of #include feature
Is there some option?

you can call the base class constructor by means of the MyBase class.

Here' an example:
public class TheBase
public sub New()

end sub
end class

public class TheDerived : Inherits TheBase
public sub New()
MyBase.New()
end sub
end class

that's what i'm doing now - but I have 10 subclasses and ~8 different
constructors
so i'm cutting and pasting the mybase stuff 10 times...
ugly

[Brad Langhorst]

"Andrea Saltarello [MVP][UGIdotNET]" <pa*********************@phaseit.com>
wrote in message news:OM**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

I have a series of classes that share the same constructors and find myself

cutting and pasting when i make changes to them ... a sure sign of

something

badly wrong.
How do you all deal with sharing this code?
I can't seem to find any sort of #include feature
Is there some option?

you can call the base class constructor by means of the MyBase class.

Here' an example:
public class TheBase
public sub New()

end sub
end class

public class TheDerived : Inherits TheBase
public sub New()
MyBase.New()
end sub
end class

that's what i'm doing now - but I have 10 subclasses and ~8 different
constructors
so i'm cutting and pasting the mybase stuff 10 times...
ugly