What is the preferred way of constructing objects in C#? Constructor parameters or properties?

Question

I was wondering, what is the preferred way to construct a new object in C#?

Take a Person class:

public class Person 
{
    private string name;
             


        

Answer 1

The second way is just syntactic sugar for setting the properties manually:

Person p = new Person();
p.Name = "name";
p.Age = 24;

You're also not depending on the constructor which may not initalize all the properties you want to set.

If your class has a constructor which requires these two parameters, you don't get around to explicitly call that constructor.