I had seen some books(e.g programming entity framework code first Julia Lerman) define their domain classes (POCO) with no initialization of the navigation properties like:
public class User
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string UserName { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<Address> Address { get; set; }
public virtual License License { get; set; }
}
some other books or tools (e.g Entity Framework Power Tools) when generates POCOs initializes the navigation properties of the the class, like:
public class User
{
public User()
{
this.Addresses = new IList<Address>();
this.License = new License();
}
public int Id { get; set; }
public string UserName { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<Address> Addresses { get; set; }
public virtual License License { get; set; }
}
Q1: Which one is better? why? Pros and Cons?
Edit:
public class License
{
public License()
{
this.User = new User();
}
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Key { get; set; }
public DateTime Expirtion { get; set; }
public virtual User User { get; set; }
}