Can a subclass inherit a constructor?

Question

1. I have a base class, "B", which has two constructors, one with no paremeters and the other that accepts one param, an integer
2. I have a subclass, "S", which inherits from "B" and does not define any constructors in it.
3. I create an instance of S, attempting to pass to the constructor an integer.

I get the error:

Error 1 Too many arguments to 'Public Sub New()"

This surprises me because I thought that if a constructor is not defined in the subclass, S, that the base class constructor method, specifically, the one with the single integer param would be invoked w/o an error.

Do you have any idea why I am getting this error? Are constructors a special case?

Answer 1

The constructor for a class only applies to the class it's defined in, even in an inheritance relationship. To be able to take advantage of your base-class 1-arg constructor, you'd have to do something like this (in C#):

public class S : B
{
    public S()
    {
        // do something for S
    }

    public S(int myInt) : base(myInt)
    {
        // do something for S
    }
}