What are the best practices for Private Member Instantiation/Initialization? [duplicate]

Answer 1

It can make a difference in an inheritance situation. See this link on the object initialization order:
http://www.csharp411.com/c-object-initialization/

1. Derived static fields
2. Derived static constructor
3. Derived instance fields
4. Base static fields
5. Base static constructor
6. Base instance fields
7. Base instance constructor
8. Derived instance constructor

So if this is a derived class, the entire base object is initialized between when your derived field is initialized and when your constructor runs.