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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 7:29 AM joydipkanjilal

Private, Public and Static Constructors in C#

A static constructor is one that can accept no arguments and is called only once during the entire application's lifecycle. It is invoked the first time when any static member of the class to which it belongs, is referenced. A private constructor prevents instantiation and subclassing of the class and a public constructor is called when the class is instantiated. It should be noted that we can have only one private or static constructor for a class. A private constructor of a class can however be accessed from other public constructors of the class through constructor chaining.

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# re: Private, Public and Static Constructors in C#

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 5:42 AM by Lucian

Hello,

the static constructor is called AT MOST once; its call is not deterministic; it is guaranteed to be called before the first access of a static member (field or method) or before the first instantiation.

A private constructor cannot be called with chaining, but a protected one, yes.

In rest it is correct :)

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