Question

for example, I’m trying to initialize a new Person

var me = new Person();

but i’m just wondering if it’s possible for that initialization to automatically return a seed?

I’m trying to add it to the constructor but I don’t know how?

public class Person
{
   public Person Person(){ return ...}
}

well, that doesn’t really work. Can anyone explain to me why it doesn’t work and if there’s another way to do this?

I can do object initialization, but I’m just wondering if this is possible??

Answer 1

From your comment:

automatically adds value to the variable (in this case “me”) and populating the instantiated object.. ie: having Person.Name = “Joe” and etc… without me manually doing object initialization or what not… basically I want the model/class to create its own data right after I instantiate it..

Just add implementation to the parameterless constructor:

public class Person
{
    public Person()
    {
        this.Name = "Joe";
    }

    public string Name { get; set; }
}

When you call var me = new Person();, then Name will already be populated with "Joe".

More usages of constructors

If you want to be able to customize the name more quickly, then you could add parameters to that constructor, or add a different constructor that takes parameters:

public class Person
{
    public Person()
        : this("Joe") // Calls the other constructor that takes a name...
    {
    }

    public Person(string name)
    {
        this.Name = name;
    }

    public string Name { get; set; }
}

var me = new Person(); // Joe
var you = new Person("You");

In the latest .Net, you can also use default values for these parameters to make your code shorter:

public class Person
{
    public Person(string name = "Joe") // Will be "Joe" unless you say otherwise
    {
        this.Name = name;
    }

    public string Name { get; set; }
}

var me = new Person(); // Joe
var you = new Person("You");