Constructors and Inheritance

Question

Lets take an example in C#

public class Foo
{
    public Foo() { }
    public Foo(int j) { }
}

public class Bar : Foo
{

}

Now, All the pu

Answer 1

Constructors are not inheritable for design reasons. (Note that this is the same situation in every object-oriented language of which I know.) The simple answer is that in many cases you'd really not want the same constructors as the base class to be available. See this SO thread for some more complete explanations.