C# Primer Plus

Chapter 13. CLASS ANATOMY PART II: OBJECT CREATION AND GARBAGE COLLECTION

You will learn about the following in this chapter:

• The three different ways of initializing instance variables—automatic initializations, initialization declarations, and constructors

• The new keyword's ability to call a constructor

• Overloading instance constructors

• The constructor initializer

• private instance constructors

• static constructors

• The readonly class member

• Garbage collection—freeing the memory occupied by unreachable objects

• The “Dispose design pattern”—freeing other scarce, non-memory resources occupied by unreachable objects

• Destructors and their limited use

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