Question

I’m writing a linq-to-sql query to populate a list of objects MyModel.

For the class definition of MyModel,I have:

public class MyModel{
  public Var1 {get;set;}
....
}

In the query, I have the option of writing both syntax:

var Query1 = from ....
            where ....
            select new MyModel
            { ... }

var Query2 = from ....
            where ....
            select new MyModel()
            { ... }

Both options work. What’s the difference in adding the () in the select statement?

Thanks.

Answer 1

There is 0 difference. The second version of the syntax exists to let you call a non-default constructor when creating the objects before the object initializer code runs. For example

select new MyModel(value1, value2) 
{ ... }

This is useful in cases where a type doesn’t have a parameterless constructor or their are certain values which can only be set via the constructor.