diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/MshHostTraceListener.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/MshHostTraceListener.cs
index 19cfd7c7e2..357e0222b6 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/MshHostTraceListener.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/MshHostTraceListener.cs
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
             }
         }
 
-        private readonly StringBuilder _cachedWrite = new StringBuilder();
+        private readonly StringBuilder _cachedWrite = new();
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Sends the given output string to the host for processing.
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/TraceCommandBase.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/TraceCommandBase.cs
index 4cdee2a151..9118fd773f 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/TraceCommandBase.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/TraceCommandBase.cs
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
         {
             notMatched = new Collection<string>();
 
-            Collection<PSTraceSource> results = new Collection<PSTraceSource>();
+            Collection<PSTraceSource> results = new();
             foreach (string patternToMatch in patternsToMatch)
             {
                 bool matchFound = false;
@@ -102,12 +102,12 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
                         !WildcardPattern.ContainsWildcardCharacters(patternToMatch))
                     {
                         ItemNotFoundException itemNotFound =
-                            new ItemNotFoundException(
+                            new(
                                 patternToMatch,
                                 "TraceSourceNotFound",
                                 SessionStateStrings.TraceSourceNotFound);
 
-                        ErrorRecord errorRecord = new ErrorRecord(itemNotFound.ErrorRecord, itemNotFound);
+                        ErrorRecord errorRecord = new(itemNotFound.ErrorRecord, itemNotFound);
                         WriteError(errorRecord);
                     }
                 }
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/TraceExpressionCommand.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/TraceExpressionCommand.cs
index 97a398425d..8179b9179d 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/TraceExpressionCommand.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/TraceExpressionCommand.cs
@@ -541,6 +541,6 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
         private readonly TraceListenerCommandBase _cmdlet;
         private readonly bool _writeError;
         private bool _isOpen = true;
-        private readonly Collection<PSTraceSource> _matchingSources = new Collection<PSTraceSource>();
+        private readonly Collection<PSTraceSource> _matchingSources = new();
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/TraceListenerCommandBase.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/TraceListenerCommandBase.cs
index d57c117ce4..abdb6ae17b 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/TraceListenerCommandBase.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/trace/TraceListenerCommandBase.cs
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
 
                     try
                     {
-                        Collection<string> resolvedPaths = new Collection<string>();
+                        Collection<string> resolvedPaths = new();
                         try
                         {
                             // Resolve the file path
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
                             if (ForceWrite && System.IO.File.Exists(resolvedPath))
                             {
                                 // remove readonly attributes on the file
-                                System.IO.FileInfo fInfo = new System.IO.FileInfo(resolvedPath);
+                                System.IO.FileInfo fInfo = new(resolvedPath);
                                 if (fInfo != null)
                                 {
                                     // Save some disk write time by checking whether file is readonly..
@@ -300,13 +300,13 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
                             }
 
                             // Trace commands always append..So there is no need to set overwrite with force..
-                            FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(resolvedPath, FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.ReadWrite);
+                            FileStream fileStream = new(resolvedPath, FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.ReadWrite);
                             FileStreams.Add(fileStream);
 
                             // Open the file stream
 
                             TextWriterTraceListener fileListener =
-                                    new TextWriterTraceListener(fileStream, resolvedPath);
+                                    new(fileStream, resolvedPath);
 
                             fileListener.Name = FileListener;
 
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
                         if (fileOpenError != null)
                         {
                             ErrorRecord errorRecord =
-                                new ErrorRecord(
+                                new(
                                     fileOpenError,
                                     "FileListenerPathResolutionFailed",
                                     ErrorCategory.OpenError,
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
                     if (error != null)
                     {
                         ErrorRecord errorRecord =
-                            new ErrorRecord(
+                            new(
                                 error,
                                 "FileListenerPathResolutionFailed",
                                 ErrorCategory.InvalidArgument,
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
                 {
                     // Copy the listeners into a different collection
 
-                    Collection<TraceListener> listenerCollection = new Collection<TraceListener>();
+                    Collection<TraceListener> listenerCollection = new();
                     foreach (TraceListener listener in source.Listeners)
                     {
                         listenerCollection.Add(listener);
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
         }
 
         private readonly Dictionary<PSTraceSource, KeyValuePair<PSTraceSourceOptions, Collection<TraceListener>>> _storedTraceSourceState =
-            new Dictionary<PSTraceSource, KeyValuePair<PSTraceSourceOptions, Collection<TraceListener>>>();
+            new();
 
         #endregion stored state
     }