Question

I could have sworn that I saw a quick demo of new features in VS 2008 which included a way to set public variables without creating numerous constructors that take variables and set them to values. Does anyone know the syntax for this?

Answer 1

You may be talking about the Object Initializers like…this is a feature of C# 3.0 and VB.NET 9.

Dim cust = New Person() With {.Id = 2, .Name = 'Jesse B'} 

and in c#

var cust = new Person() { Id = 2, Name = 'Jesse B'};