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JavaScript : Object-Oriented Programming
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JavaScript : Object-Oriented Programming

by Kumar Chetan Sharma et al
August 2016
Beginner to intermediate
847 pages
17h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Customizing constructors in C#

We want to initialize instances of the Circle class with the radius value. In order to do so, we can take advantage of the constructors in C#. Constructors are special class methods that are automatically executed when we create an instance of a given type. The runtime executes the code within the constructor before any other code within a class.

We can define a constructor that receives the radius value as an argument and use it to initialize an attribute with the same name. We can define as many constructors as we want. Therefore, we can provide many different ways of initializing a class. In this case, we just need one constructor.

The following lines create a Circle class and define a constructor within the class ...

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