Tutorial by Topics: initializers

The only requirement for an object to be initialized using this syntactic sugar is that the type implements System.Collections.IEnumerable and the Add method. Although we call it a collection initializer, the object does not have to be an collection.

SomeClass sc = new SomeClass { Property1 = value1, Property2 = value2, ... }; SomeClass sc = new SomeClass(param1, param2, ...) { Property1 = value1, Property2 = value2, ... } The constructor parentheses can only be omitted if the type being instantiated has a default (parameterless) const...