Question

I’ve got a (poorly written) base class that I want to wrap in a proxy object. The base class resembles the following:

public class BaseClass : SomeOtherBase  {    public BaseClass() {}     public BaseClass(int someValue) {}     //...more code, not important here } 

and, my proxy resembles:

public BaseClassProxy : BaseClass {   public BaseClassProxy(bool fakeOut){} } 

Without the ‘fakeOut’ constructor, the base constructor is expected to be called. However, with it, I expected it to not be called. Either way, I either need a way to not call any base class constructors, or some other way to effectively proxy this (evil) class.

Answer 1

If you do not explicitly call any constructor in the base class, the parameterless constructor will be called implicitly. There’s no way around it, you cannot instantiate a class without a constructor being called.