can constructors be overloaded in c# if so how

Something like this

class MyClass
{
    private string _FirstName;

    public MyClass()
    {
        // Default constructor
    }

    private MyClass(string firstName)
    {
        _FirstName = firstName;
    }
}


hongjun

Another note to throw out there, if you want to have NO default constructor appear, then you need this:

class MyClass
{
    private string _FirstName;

    private MyClass()  //note that it is private, this way there can be no default constructor. an alternative const must be used.
    {
        // Default constructor
    }

    public MyClass(string firstName)
    {
        _FirstName = firstName;
    }
}

My 2 comments would have been a good enough answer and split should have been executed.

.... and strickdd's wrong, anyway... As soon as you define any constructor at all, you don't get the automatic default (no parameters) constructor...

So the fact that you've got public MyClass(string firstName)

means that the constructor MyClass() doesn't exist...

Yes. I agree with andrewjb.

hongjun

In other words with below, default constructor will be "missing".

class MyClass
{
    private string _FirstName;

    public MyClass(string firstName)
    {
        _FirstName = firstName;
    }
}


hongjun

PS I wasn't point-hunting. H gave the original, correct, answer - that's fine!