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currInterestRate = 0.04;

currBalance = balance;

}

...

}

If you execute the previous Main() method, notice how the currInterestRate variable is reset

each time you create a new SavingsAccount object (see Figure 5-7).

Figure 5-7.

Assigning static data in an instance level constructor “resets” the value.

While you are always free to establish the initial value of static data using the member initial-

ization syntax, what if the value for your static data needed to be obtained from a database or

external file? To perform such tasks requires a method scope (such as a constructor) to execute the

code statements. For this very reason, C# allows you to define a static constructor:

class SavingsAccount

{

public double currBalance;

public static double currInterestRate;

public SavingsAccount(double balance)

{

currBalance = balance;

}