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

Answer 1

I have a different take on this. I think you should abstract to properties and set them in the constructor. Using automatic properties would basically eliminate the question since you aren't able to initialize them (to anything other than the default).

public class RemotingEngine {
    private uint CurrentValueID { get; set; }
    private object Lock { get; set; }

    public RemotingEngine()
    {
        this.CurrentValueID = 0; // not really necessary...
        this.Lock = new object();
    }
}