[Mono-list] Constructors in C#

[Brice Carpentier]

Hi folks,
I think I'm gonna ask a dumb question, but well, I've been crawling the 
web for about an hour or so and didn't find the answer, so let's ask :

Basically what I want is what can be done in Java the following way :

public class MyClass
{
	private String member;

	public MyClass ()
	{
		this("stuff");
	}

	public MyClass (String s)
	{
		this.member = s;
	}
}

or in vb this way (according to http://tinyurl.com/3lcyy) :

Public Class Manager
   Private nameField As String

   Public Sub New()
     'give nameField a default value
     nameField = "Tony"
     System.Console.WriteLine("I am the manager.")
   End Sub

   Public Sub New(ByVal name As String)
     nameField = name
     System.Console.WriteLine("I am the manager.")
   End Sub
End Class

I noticed I could do something like :

public class MyClass
{
	private string member;

	public MyClass () : this("stuff") {}

	public MyClass (string s)
	{
		this.member = s;
	}
}

but I've got some checks to do before calling the second constructor and 
  therefore cannot use that method.
Any hint ?

Regards,

-- 
Brice Carpentier aka Br|ce