Re: Creating a "public only" constructor

Yeah - that's about the only choice - however it will be manual, as all the default constructors I want to block are not code generated :(

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From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Anderson
Sent: Monday, 06 April 2009 20:51
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Creating a "public only" constructor

How's this:
 
Define a new conditional compilation symbol when in the Debug configuration (or create a new configuration that includes it) : CHECKCTOR
then use code similar to:
 
#if CHECKCTOR
    [Obsolete("This should not be used from within project Foo", true)]
#endif
    public ClassName()
    {...}
 
(or just use DEBUG instead of CHECKCTOR of course, but then you will not be able to compile a debug version of the library for use by external libraries)
 
Chris

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From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. on behalf of Dean Cleaver
Sent: Mon 06/04/2009 09:15
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Creating a "public only" constructor



Frans,

If it were a new design yes - but it's not. The code generation has allowed for this separate server capability, but I fear it cannot be utilised fully because the code was historically never designed to work with it, and without hundreds of hours of trawling through the current codebase it can't be successfully changed to a class factory type scenario.

Dino




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