Static Classes and Static Class Members
In this link Microsoft says,
a static class cannot be instantiated. In other words, you cannot use the new keyword to create a variable of the class type. Because there is no instance variable, you access the members of a static class by using the class name itself.
I learned static class the same as stated above. But for the static class Tuple introduced in .NET Framework 4 can have new keyword to create a Tuple.
var population = new Tuple( "New York", 7891957, 7781984, 7894862, 7071639, 7322564, 8008278);
Another example
Can anyone explain how is that possible?
The static Tuple
class is a factory class: it's job is just to provide an easy to way to construct tuples.
In reality, there are 8 tuple classes in .NET 4:
Tuple<T1, T2>
, Tuple<T1, T2, T3>
and so on.Tuple
factory class which centralizes construction of the above.So, you can't create an instance of a static class, but you can have several classes with the same name, if they have different generic arguments.
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