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Call Virtual Functions From Constructors?

By Shahar Y

July 8, 2008

.Net, C#

8 Comments

This one could be easily become one of the Job Interview Questions we publish here at Dev102.com, but I decided to write a “regular” post about this issue because it is an important concept and not a just a puzzle or a brain teaser. Take a look at the following code, can you tell what will the output be?

public class BaseType
 {
     public BaseType()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("Call base ctor.");
         DoSomething();
     }

     public virtual void DoSomething()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("Base DoSomething");
     }
 }

 public class DerivedType : BaseType
 {
     public DerivedType()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("Call derived ctor.");
     }

     public override void DoSomething()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("Derived DoSomething");
     }
 }

 public class MainClass
 {
     public static void Main()
     {
         DerivedType derived = new DerivedType();
         Console.ReadLine();
     }
 }

The output of this program is:


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How to Convert List(T1) to List(T2)

By Shahar A

May 15, 2008

.Net, C#

6 Comments

Did you ever need to convert List(T1) to List(T2)? One example might be when implementing an interface. you might need to expose a collection of other interfaces (or maybe the same interface), But you usually hold the concrete type implementing the interface in the collection. Lets look at the following example:


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