Series: Coding Contentions: Constructor Chaining, do you go up or down?</h1> <article> <h1>Series: Coding Contentions: Constructor Chaining, do you go up or down?</h1> <p>webmaster@pchenry.com — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:54:00 GMT</p> <p>If you are reading this blog, hopefully you're into C# and therefore OOP. I would hope you've heard of constructors, but have you heard of Constructor Chaining? It's the process of keeping your code <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself">DRY</a> by having one constructor method calling another. There are two ways to do it, general to specific (forward, down) or the other way around, specific to general (backwards, up the object hierarchy tree). Both have their benefits and draw backs. </p> <p>Slang for this is daisy chaining your constructors.</p> </article> </main></body></html>