Question

I have a number of objects in my project which have fields that will contain matching values when they’re initialized – see the code snippet below for an example, in
particular the AddedDateTime and ModifiedDateTime properties:

User user = new User()
{
    FirstName = "Tex",
    Surname = "Murphy",
    AddedDateTime = DateTime.Now,
    ModifiedDateTime = DateTime.Now
};

Is it possible to set the value of ModifiedDateTime to the value of AddedDateTime, within the {…} block once it has been set?

I have a feeling it’s not possible but thought it worth asking for confirmation.

Answer 1

I’m not sure if this what your after or not, but is this appropriate?

var now = DateTime.Now;
User user = new User
{
     FirstName = "Tex",
     Surname = "Murphy",
     AddedDateTime = now,
     ModifiedDateTime = now
};

If you want to have them to initialize to the same value then you must set to a common variable value.