Our first way to create lists and add items took multiple lines:

List<string> citiesList = new List<string>();
citiesList.Add("Delhi");
citiesList.Add("Los Angeles");

We can do it all in one line using object initialization:

List<string> citiesList2 = new List<string> { "Delhi", "Los Angeles" };

We won’t cover everything about object initialization in this lesson, but you do need to recognize and use it.

• Basic construction uses parentheses ( ) and no values.
• Object initialization uses curly braces { } and the actual values go in-between.

If we need to add elements to that second list later, we can still use Add():

citiesList2.Add("Kiev");