C# 3.0 Basic - Collection initializer

According to C# 3.0 specification, "a collection initializer consists of a sequence of element initializers, enclosed by { and } tokens and separated by commas".

So

Person p1 = new Person("Jacqualine", "Chow"); Person p2 = new Person("Andre", "Meurer"); Person p3 = new Person("Alex", "James"); List<Person> pList = new List<Person>(); pList.Add(p1); pList.Add(p2); pList.Add(p3);

can be written as

List<Person> pList = new List<Person>{ p1, p2, p3};

and in combining the power of object initializer, this will become

List<Person> pList = new List<Person> { new Person { Firstname = "Jacqualine", Lastname = "Chow" }, new Person { Firstname = "Andre", Lastname = "Meurer" }, new Person { Firstname = "Alex", Lastname = "James" } };