Object Initializers in C# 3.0
C# 3.0 includes a new language feature called object initializers.
Object initializers enable you to initialize the state of an object with a single expression that does not require use of parameterized constructors.
Basically, this feature allows you to initialize an object by both creating the object instance (i.e. a new expression) as well as assign values to one or more properties in a single sentence, or to initialize a collection with a set of values to add to it in a single expression.
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Customer cus1 = new Customer() { Name = "Maor", City = "Herzliya" };
Customer cus2 = new Customer() { Name = "Guy", City = "Ramat Hasharon" };
List<Customer> customers = new List<Customer>() { cus1, cus2 };
}
}
class Customer
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string City { get; set; }
}
The first & the second lines initialize a Customer object with the default constructor (though you could call a constructor with parameters here), and assigns explicit values to the Name and City properties.
The third line initializes a collection of type List<Customer> with the objects cus1 and cus2.
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