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Nathan Minier27-Dec-17 6:32
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Just to add some clarification, since there seems to be so much consternation.

One of those is an explicit constructor call, MyClass(). The second is an initializer, which allows you to populate values as you see fit regardless of their "safety". It also requires a default constructor for the class, otherwise you're stuck calling the constructor then the initializer. This all means that if a constructor is defined with arguments, you can initialize in a safe way as defined by whoever created that class. For instance:
C#
public class MyClass
{
   public string Greeting { get; set; }
   public bool IsGoodDayGreeting { get; set; }

   public MyClass(){} //default constructor i.e. no arguments

   public MyClass(string greeting)
   {
      Greeting = greeting;
      IsGoodDayGreeting = greeting.Equals("Good Morning") || greeting.Equals("Good Day"); //set flag
   }
}

Now that we've got the class, we have 3 ways to initialize it:
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var greeting = new MyClass("Good Day"); // new myclass with a true flag

// new myclass false flag, but should be true per constructor. 
var greeting3 = new MyClass { Greeting = "Good Morning" }; 

// new myclass which should be false per constructor, but is true
var greeting4 = new MyClass("Hello") { IsGoodDayGreeting = true };

As long as you bear the possible deviations in mind when breaking away from the constructor this is all fine and dandy, and a good dev will make sure that Object Initialization will not break an object's functionality, but if you rely on that without checking you are ultimately doomed to disappointment.

The last piece is constructor initialization. This only applies to items that implement IEnumerable, so it will work with Arrays, Lists, Dictionaries, etc.
C#
var greetings = new List<MyClass>
{
   new MyClass("Hello"),
   new MyClass("Good Morning"),
   greeting2,
   greeting4
};

As expected, that results in a list populated with 2 new instances of MyClas and, assuming it's in scope with the above code, the previously defined greeting2 and greeting4.

Anyway, I hope this is what you needed.
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