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

Instantiation refers to the allocation of memory to create an instance of a class whereas initialization refers to naming that instance by assigning the variable name to that instance.

Eg: SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection();

Here new is a keyword which allocates memory for an instance and conn is a variable name assigned for that instance.