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C# – Call a constructor from another constructor

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To call one constructor from another one, you have to use the constructor chaining syntax, like this: This means when you use the Person(string name) constructor, it’ll first call the Person(string name, string birthDate) constructor. If the constructor is in a base class, use base() instead of this(): Employee subclasses Person. So calling base(name) here … Read more

C# – Use records as a shortcut for defining DTOs

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You can declare a record with a single line of code: Note: This feature was added in .NET 5 / C# 9. Records are basically classes (reference types) that work very well as simple data containers (i.e. DTOs). Here’s an example of using a record: This outputs the following: As shown, when you declare a … Read more