Multilevel inheritance constructor in C#

Question

Is there a way in C# to call the grandfather's constructor? Let's say I have:

public class A
{
   public A(parameterX x)
   {
      doSomething();
   }
}

public class B : A
{
   public B(parameterX x) : base(x)
   {
      doSomethingElse();
   }
}

And then I have:

public class C : B
{
}

And I want the constructor in C to call the constructor in A, what can I use for this? Is there something like:

public C(parameterX x) : base : base(x)

Or how can I just call the constructor in A from C?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You cannot call a grandparent class' constructor.
However, you don't need to either, since the base class already does.

When you write public C(parameterX x) : base(x), it will call B(x), which will in turn call A(x).

In general, since your base class' constructor will always call its base constructor (your grandparent), it wouldn't make sense to be able to explicitly call the grandparent constructor, since that would end up constructing it twice.

Answer 2

Although I don't really understand what is that you are trying to do and you probably can come up with a better actual design, you can probably achieve what you need by adding another constructor in B that takes the Bar parameter as A, but do nothing in it simply calling A(Bar) constructor, that way when you do C(bar) : base(bar) it will go to B and then to A. Ugly as hell.