Question

I’ve gotten accustomed to many of the Java IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA) providing you with a command to generate a default constructor for a class based on the fields in the class.

For example:

public class Example
{
    public decimal MyNumber { get; set; }
    public string Description { get; set; }
    public int SomeInteger { get; set; }

    // ↓↓↓ This is what I want generated ↓↓↓
    public Example(decimal myNumber, string description, int someInteger)
    {
        MyNumber = myNumber;
        Description = description;
        SomeInteger = someInteger;
    }
}

Having a constructor populate all of the fields of an object is such a common task in most OOP languages, I’m assuming that there is a some way for me to save time writing this boilerplate code in C#. Am I missing something fundamental about the language? Is there some option in Visual Studio that is obvious?

Answer 1

ReSharper offers a Generate Constructor tool where you can select any field/properties that you want initialized. I use the Alt + Ins hot-key to access this.