Re: Overriding constructors

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From: Cowboy (NoSpamMgbworld_at_comcast.netNoSpamM)
Date: 05/18/04 

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 13:29:30 -0500

You should be able to write a constructor for your class and explicitly call
the base implementation, effectively overriding it. You can also overload
the constructor, if you need params passed in when you create the object. I
have not tried with ServiceBase, in particular, but your new derived class
can have a default constructor as well as any number of parameterized
constructors.

I do not necessarily consider this to be overriding so much, so the
terminology is suspect. 

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"Samer" <samabutaa@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm writing a class that derives from ServiceBase and it says in the
> documentation for the constructor of ServiceBase that if you override
> the base class constructor, you should explicitly call it in the
> constructor of your derived class.
>
> As far as I know a constructor cannot be overridden only overloaded,
> is this a mistake or have I been mislead.

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