C# Featurette #3 from Eric Gunnerson

Eric describes a new Whidbey feature focused on creating those 'utility' classes in the style of System.Math or System.Environment:

C# Whidbey Featurette #3: Static classes

Because all functions in C# must live inside of a class, there are some clases - System.Math is a canonical example - that are merely collections of static methods. Since it's useless to create an instance of such a class, in current versions of C#, you can protect against this by creating a private constructor. The constructor can never be called, and therefore no instance can be created.

There are three issues with this approach:

Of course, you'll have to click on the title of his post to read more :)

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