Instantiate object with private constructor

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mrrrk - 07 May 2004 08:25 GMT

It is not possible to create an instance of a
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader because it's constructor is Private.
But somehow the ExecuteReader method of SqlCommand manages to create a
reader object.

How is this acheived because I want to emulate this sort of behaviour?

Thanks in advance.

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP] - 07 May 2004 08:36 GMT

> It is not possible to create an instance of a
> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader because it's constructor is Private.
> But somehow the ExecuteReader method of SqlCommand manages to create a
> reader object.
>
> How is this acheived because I want to emulate this sort of behaviour?

The constructor isn't private - it's internal.

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