The Weird and The Wonderful

class TestClass()
{
     List<Employee> employees { get; set; }

     TestClass()
     {
          employees = GetEmployees();
     }

     private List<Employee> GetEmployees()
     {
          return (from oRec in DataModel.Employees select oRec).ToList();
     }
}

vonb wrote:

return (from oRec in DataModel.Employees select oRec).ToList();

private List<Employee> GetEmployees()
{
   return DataModel.Employees.ToList();
}

publc List<Employee> GetEmployees(int departmentId)
{
     return (from oRec in DataModel.Employees where oRec.DepartmentID == departmentId).ToList();
}

return DataModel.Employees.Where(oRec => oRec.DepartmentID == departmentId).ToList();

Mark Starr wrote:

I didn't this you could use any comparison operator against NULL

List<Employee> employees = new List<Employee>();
if (employees != null){
   employees = GetEmployees();

List<Employee> employees = GetEmployees();

Quote:

It's possible declaration and/or the assignment at declaration was added later.

Michael Losinski wrote:

The only thing that I can think of is technically new doesn't guarantee that the variable initialization will take place.