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Public static method calls private constructor
I'm working in a C# codebase that was largely written by a former developer and this pattern is used extensively...
public class AuditInserter
{
public static void Insert(
DataContext ...
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When to use a static method instead of a constructor?
I have a short question for you: let's imagine that we have a class similar to this one.
public class StreamTradeDataProvider : ITradeDataProvider
{
public StreamTradeDataProvider(Stream stream)
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Handle Named constructors with factory pattern
In my current project I'm refactoring the code to get a DBAL. I have a class Entity that is the base class for all classes that model a database table. So there are several classes that inherit from ...
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Is a large static initializer a code smell?
I am extending SimpleExpandableListAdapter in Android. I don't think Android's adapter is implemented very well, in that its constructors have a large number of rather complicated arguments and it has ...
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Requring static class setter to be called before constructor, bad design?
I have a class, say Foo, and every instance of Foo will need and contain the same List object, myList.
Since every class instance will share the same List Object, I thought it would be good to make ...
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