What is object initializer and how to write it in VB.NET?

Question

Pls post me some sample code for object intializer.

Answer 1

Object Initializer is new way of initializing the object, starting from .net framework 3.0
This is used to initialize the object properties during the time of instance creation itself. To make it clear, consider that you have class called Customer as below.

Public Class Customer
         private _firstName as String
         Public Property FirstName() As String
            Get
                Return _firstName
            End Get
            Set(ByVal value As String)
                 _firstName = value
            End Set
         End Property

         private _lastName as String
         Public Property LastName() As String
            Get
                Return _lastName
            End Get
            Set(ByVal value As String)
                 _lastName = value
            End Set
         End Property
End Class

When you want to create an object for class Customer and set values of the property, before dot net 3.0, you might have done like below.

Dim _customer As New Customer();
_customer.FirstName = "Frank"
_customer.LastName = "Anderson"

But with .net 3.0 and after, we can create the same as below code.

Dim _customer As New Customer() With { .FirstName = "Frank", .LastName = "Anderson" }

Both are going to give the same result.