Which is first, Xml Assignment or Constructor?

Questions & Answers
1

If I were to deserialize an xml and it assign to a new object, such as this:

[XmlRoot("TileArray")]
public class TileArray 
{
	[XmlArray("TileCollection")]
	[XmlArrayItem("Tile")]
	public List<Tile> TileCollection = new List<Tile>();
}

When the “Tile” objects are created in the list and XML elements are assigned to it, say, like this:

public class Tile 
{
	[XmlElement("id")]
	public ushort tileNumber;
}

Would the “tileNumber” variable be assigned to the Tile object first, and then the Tile object constructor called, or the other way around?

2

Turns out, the constructor is called first, when it’s added to the list. After that, the variables are assigned.