C# 0 The Complete Reference

Count

 and 

Str

 are given the specified initial values.

It is important to understand that the order of the initializers is not important. For 

example,

obj

 could have been initialized as shown here:

MyClass obj = new MyClass { Str = "Testing", Count = 100 };

In this statement, the initialization of 

Str

 precedes the initialization of 

Count

. In the program, 

it was the other way around. However, in either case, the end result is the same.

Here is the general form of object initialization syntax:

new

class-nam

e { 

name

 = 

expr

,

name

 = 

expr

,

name

 = 

expr

, ... }

Here, 

name

 specifies the name of a field or property that is an accessible member of 

class-

name

. Of course, the type of the initializing expression specified by 

expr

 must be compatible 

with the type of field or property.

Although you can use object initializers with a named class (such as 

MyClass

 in the 

example), you usually won’t. In general, you will use the normal constructor call syntax 

when working with named classes. As mentioned, object initializers are most applicable 

to anonymous types generated by a LINQ expression.