What do braces after C# new statement do?

Question

Given the code below, what is the difference between the way position0 is initialized and the way position1 is initialized? Are they equivalent?

Answer 1

Forgetting about all the IL stuff, it is just shorthand notation. What you are doing is this:

a. In one case you are explicitly using the default constructor and then setting the two properties.

b. In the other, you are using the new intializer syntax which implicitly makes the compiler do what you did in case a.

IL subtelties notwithstanding, they will achieve the same thing for you.