Questions tagged [init-only]

I keep reading up on init-only properties in C#9 but I thought we already had that with read-only properties which can only be set in a constructor. After that, it’s immutable. For instance, in the class here, both Name and Description can be…

C# 9.0 introduced init-only class properties feature but they can't be used when creating instances by class type with Activator.CreateInstance. A simplistic example: class Person { public string Name { get; init; } } void Test() { Person…

I tried writing some C# code to create an init-only property. I was surprised to find that the property could be changed at run-time. Have I misunderstood the idea of immutability? I am using Visual Studio Community 16.9.3. Sample code. namespace…