#694 – Sequence of Events for Chained Constructors

When you chain constructors together using the this keyword, one constructor calls another while an object is being created.

When one constructor chains to another, the constructor being chained to is executed first, followed by the body of the original constructor.

For example, assume that we have three Dog constructors, as shown below.

        public Dog(string name, int age, string favToy)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("name/age/favToy constructor executing");
        }

        public Dog(string name, int age)
            : this(name, age, "ball")
        {
            Console.WriteLine("name/age constructor executing");
        }

        public Dog(string name)
            : this(name, 1)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("name constructor executing");
        }

If we create a Dog object and pass it only a single argument, of type string, the code in the body of each constructor will be executed in the following order:

• name/age/favToy constructor
• name/age constructor
• name constructor