What is the difference between “instantiated” and “initialized”?

Question

I\'ve been hearing these two words used in Microsoft tutorials for VB.NET. What is the difference between these two words when used in reference to variables?

Answer 1

When you instantiate a class or object, you're creating a new instance of it, or allocating memory to "hold" one. Initializing that object would be the instructions that are performed during instantiation.