Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Shared Constructors

Classes can implement shared constructors, as shown in the following code:

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'Private visibilityShared Sub New()    'Initialization of shared    'members    sharedField = 10End Sub

Shared constructors are particularly useful for initializing shared members or for loading data that is common to all instances of a class. A shared constructor is invoked immediately before the normal constructor that creates a new instance of the class. With that said, the following code is appropriate and accepted by the compiler:

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Shared Sub New()    'Initialization of shared    'members    sharedField = 10End SubSub New()End Sub

Another important thing to take care of is that shared constructors ...