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1) For exactly the same reason as in C++.
2) If you don't like it, try VB.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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1. Because the new keyword tells the application to instantiate an object at that point. If we have several different constructors on an object, new is a great way to tell the application that you expect a certain constructor to be invoked at that point. Merely referencing the object wouldn't be a great place to instantiate it because you could instantiate it long before you need it - and this would play hell doing things like building class factories.
2. Get is synctatic sugar that hides the fact that you are actually calling a special method with the prefix get_, so your code has to follow the standards of other methods. Another point to consider is, how would you indicate what you are returning? It's quite common to have some form of lazy initialisation or return choice in the getter, so you have to have some functionality in there to indicate what's going to be returned. Of course, if you don't actually need to do anything, just create an automatic property and you don't have to write a return statement (although one is implicitly created behind the scenes).
3. Yes. The .NET runtime and .NET applications are still PE Format applications.
4. That's just a pattern. While there's no default implementation of it in the framework, it's incredibly trivial to create although, as anyone who's worked with DocView will attest, the DocView pattern is severely limited in what it can do. There are a number of superior patterns available to use, such as MVC.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: There are a number of superior patterns available to use, such as MVC.
Would that be the Model View Controller pattern you're referring to there? I didn't realize that was applicable to anything but web applications, but I'll be happy to try a different pattern with C++.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I was using MVC back in the late 90s with MFC - yes, for desktop apps. Ah, those were some fun days.
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1) Because if it didn't it wouldn't know when you wanted to create a new instance:
MyClass[] data = new MyClass[10];
MyClass instance;
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
data = instance;
}How many different instances of MyClass should that produce? Zero? One? Ten? Or Eleven?
MyClass[] data = new MyClass[10];
MyClass instance;
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
instance = new MyClass();
data = instance;
}Makes that abundantly clear.
2) See previous answers, particularly Pete's
3) Yes. Again, see Pete's answer.
4) No, thank goodness. D/V was good in it's time, but thankfully things have moved on a lot since those primitive days.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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thanks ... I guess my question on "new" is why isn't it just automatic?
with C# it call delete for you. So why not new also?
would you ever not use it?
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Simply because C# doesn't try to "guess" what you wanted.
Think about it: I don't want the system creating a new instance every time I try to use an existing one, because it means a trip to the DB and back to create an item that I may not use again - and the "real" DB item then doesn't get updated.
I want the system to create an instance only when I specifically tell it to.
If the system created them for me, then
MyClass[] data = MyClass[10];
Would create an array of references to MyClass instances and the instances to fill it with.
I may not want that: if MyClass always contains an enormous Bitmap (for example) that is a huge amount of time and memory being wasted, because I'm about to fill the array with the top ten instances from the DB when I call the method below it:
MyClass[] data = MyClass[10];
DAL.GetImageData(data, 10, "SEARCH CONDITION"); But the system can't know that because it doesn't have any idea what the method does - it's in a separate DLL!
The new keyword allow you to specify exactly when you want an instance created (and reminds you that this could take some time and / or resources when it does it)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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BTW:
shiftwik wrote: with C# it call delete for you
No, it doesn't - it calls Dispose for you, but not at a time of your chosing, unless you specifically add a using block: objects are only ever deleted when the Garbage Collector gets around to it, which may never happen! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Dispose will only ever be called at a time of your choosing - either from the end of a using block, or when you explicitly call it.
It's the finalizer - ~ClassName(){ ... } - that gets called by the GC at some random time in the future.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yes, you are right - and the finalizer should call Dispose(false)...
I plead stupidity...and a lack of caffeine.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Should call Dispose if you are implementing the IDisposable Interface 
You usually only use it to ensure that unmanaged resources are released, to prevent memory leaks. Either immediatly when Dispose gets called or when the GC calls the Finalize Method (which you have to override in that case), in case it didn't get called by the code which held the reference to it.
You might also use it to free resources before the GC kicks in (by setting large fields like lists etc. to null and thus making it easier for the GC to collect those resources). 
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Nicholas Marty wrote: Should call Dispose if you are implementing the IDisposable Interface
If your class has a finalizer and doesn't implement IDisposable, that's almost certainly a bug.
I can't think of any reason why your class would say, "I want this resource to possibly be cleaned up at some unknown point in the future, but I don't want the calling code to be able to clean it up immediately".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Every Type has a finalizer as every object inherits from System.Object at some point. You may or may not override it. But it still has a finalizer 
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The Object class provides no implementation for the Finalize method, and the garbage collector does not mark types derived from Object for finalization unless they override the Finalize method.
So whilst it's technically true that every object has a finalizer, only objects which override the finalizer will be marked for finalization. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yeah. And you should suppress the finalization of the object if you disposed the object already
And yeah, if you override the finalizer you should probably also use the IDisposable pattern.
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2. You could do something like this:
public int LimitedInt{
get{
if(mylimitedint < 0){
limitedint = 0;
}
if(limitedint > 42){
limitedint = 42;
}
return limitedint;
}
}
3. Yes everything that has something to do with the OS will pass through the kernel, but it passes through the .NET framework first. IOW the framework adds functionality to your code. Among many things Garbage Collection, Exception handling etc ...
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Hi, i am reading a C# book call C# for students by Douglas Bell & Mike Parr
if anyone have the code of that book please i need your help if you can send it to me
Thank you
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The link address for the code is usually printed somewhere in the book, try the inside covers, or any appendices.
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Took me one search in Google to find this[^].
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Good Morning,
i need your help
let say i want to write a program to adjust one side of a rectangle
with a track bar how can i do that?
thank you
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hi I am getting an error message: Connot implicitly type 'void' to 'string'
here is the code
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string[] strings = { "man", "bites", "mad", "dog" };
dataTextBox.Text = (Permute(strings, Output));
strings[0] = indexTextBox.Text;
strings[1] = indexTextBox.Text;
strings[2] = indexTextBox.Text;
strings[3] = indexTextBox.Text;
}
private void Output(T[] permutation)
{
string data;
data = dataTextBox.Text;
foreach (T item in permutation)
{
dataTextBox.Text = Convert.ToString (item);
}
}
public static void Permute(T[] items, Action output)
{
Permute(items, 0, new T[items.Length], new bool[items.Length], output);
}
private static void Permute(T[] items, int item, T[] permutation, bool[] used, Action output)
{
for (int i = 0; i < items.Length; ++i)
{
if (!used[i])
{
used[i] = true;
permutation[item] = items[i];
if (item < (items.Length - 1))
{
Permute(items, item + 1, permutation, used, output);
}
else
{
output(permutation);
}
used[i] = false;
}
}
}
}
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