What's New in C# 6.0: Initialize Properties Just Like Fields -- Visual Studio Magazine

Auto-implemented properties let you define a property in a single line of code:

  public string LastName { get; set; }

In C# 6.0, you can also initialize that property to some constant value in the same statement, like this:

  public string LastName { get; set; } = "Vogel";

Yes, it's that simple.

Posted by Peter Vogel on 04/21/2015

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