Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

On-the-Fly Code and Object Initializers

You might often use object initializers to create objects instances in line; generating code on-the-fly is powerful. Consider the following declaration:

When you write this code, the Person class and its FirstName and LastName properties do not exist. At this point you can open the correction options and choose the Generate Class command. Visual Studio automatically associates the previous assignments to the class that is initialized in line and generates the appropriate members. Code generation for the previous code snippet produces the following result:

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