Why is Loadcontent already executed inside Initialize() method?

Question

I am trying out XNA / Monogame in Visual Studio. I find the documentation somewhat lacking in explaining how the main XNA structure operates. As I understand it, Game1.Initialize() gets called before Game1.LoadContent().

But in this code example, I have found that the Content actually IS already loaded when still inside the initialize function. In this code example you will see that "---1---" gets logged in the console BEFORE "---2---". Why is this?

GAME1.CS

        protected override void Initialize()
        {
            base.Initialize();
            // SOMEHOW LOADCONTENT HAS NOW ALREADY BEEN EXECUTED?
            Console.WriteLine("----2---- STILL EXECUTING INIT CODE");
        }

        protected override void LoadContent()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("----1---- GAME1 LOADS CONTENT");
            AssetsManager.LoadContent(this);
            SpriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(GraphicsDevice);
        }

Console output:

----1---- GAME1 LOADS CONTENT
----2---- STILL EXECUTING INIT CODE

Answer 1

That's because you call base.Initialize() at the beginning of the method, which then calls the LoadContent method. calls to base class implementations (including base.Initialize() and base.LoadContent()) should allways be at the end of the according method.