Factory vs instance constructors

Question

I can\'t think of any reasons why one is better than the other. Compare these two implementations:

public class MyClass
{
    public MyClass(string fileName         


        

Answer 1

You can curry factory methods. Trying to curry a constructor gives you: a factory method.

I use this in some of my code that enumerates the Windows Device Manager tree. One of the classes lists the serial ports, each serial port has a connection factory property which returns a curried factory method with the port address (really ugly PNP device string) stored in internal state while the baud rate, stop bits, parity are all provided later.