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Using constructors

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- [Instructor] Hi everyone. I'd like to talk about constructors and the best ways to use them. Now, a constructor can be created using a snippet that Visual Studio provides. Spelt out as ctor, and when I hit tab tab, it immediately creates a constructor for our Actor class. Now, a couple of points about constructors that I'd like to make is that they're a method in a class that is executed when an instance of the class is created. Now, it has the same name of the class as you can see here on line 11. And this particular constructor is called a default constructor and it has no parameters. And it's actually not required for you to put it in but when you do not C# will create an implicit constructor for you. Now we can also have a parametrized constructor where you can pass in parameters. Lets go ahead and create one. And lets say I want to pass in an actor name. Well, lets go ahead and create a property for that. And I'll use another code snippet called propfull. And I want to be…

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