Guid Constructor

Which is probably called internally by Guid.NewGuid...

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Subject: Re: [DOTNET-CLR] Guid Constructor

Interesting enough, System.Guid has a private constructor
which accepts
a boolean argument which, basically, says if the newly
created instance
of the struct should be zero-initialized or generated by the
system.

Efran Cobisi
http://www.cobisi.com

Dan Farino wrote:
> There's also a technical reason: System.Guid is a value
type and, as
> such, it can't have an explicit parameterless
constructor. All the
> fields are zero-initialized by the CLR unless a
constructor taking an
> argument is called.
>
> -Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Cobisi
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:50 AM
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> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-CLR] Guid Constructor
>
> I think this was a design driven decision. Since
creating a new Guid
is
> a time consuming task and one usually would not expect
to perform a
> lenghty operation inside a constructor, calling a
method would be more
> appropriate in this case.
>
> HTH,
>
> Efran Cobisi
> http://www.cobisi.com
>
> Brady Kelly wrote:
>
>> Why do I have to use the Guid.NewGuid static method
to create a new,
>>
> random
>
>> Guid?  A default, parameterless constructor seems
an ideal means to
do
>>
> this.
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