This is my scnerio. i have a class called student.

public class student : studentbase

{

public string name;

public int age;

public student(); - > i get a compilation telling "extern" key or body must be declared.

}

i did nt understand. any idea..

A constructor is a function.  Functions must have bodies.

 You can't declare a constructor like that. Besides the fact that an empty constructor with no paramters is always implicitly declared (in other words, you don't have to write it), it is declared this way:

public student() { }

and NOT

public student();

SGWellens:

A constructor is a function.  Functions must have bodies.

i understand wht u have said. but the problem is i have seen a code as explained in the above post and i dont get compilation errors. but the same class is used in a standlone project i am getting compilation errors.

If you look closely, you'll see two curly braces:  {}

This is the function body, it's an empty body, but you must provide a body even if it's empty.

Ganesh@Nilgris:

i have seen a code as explained in the above post and i dont get compilation errors

Show us this other code and we will explain to you why it is different.

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SGWellens:

A constructor is a function.  Functions must have bodies.

i understand wht u have said. but the problem is i have seen a code as explained in the above post and i dont get compilation errors. but the same class is used in a standlone project i am getting compilation errors.

 

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bitnbytes:

You probably have seen some abstract class in bigger project. And these were classes derived from it. And now you have tried to do the same in standalone project and now you are getting compilation error. You can not have an empty body in non-abstract definitions.

 

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SGWellens:

A constructor is a function.  Functions must have bodies.

 

 

i understand wht u have said. but the problem is i have seen a code as explained in the above post and i dont get compilation errors. but the same class is used in a standlone project i am getting compilation errors.

 

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Jai Ganesh. J , GSD ,India

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i guess that the problem might be i have copied the code from the metaform of the class and not from the orginal class. Thanks for all the people who have responded.