Question

I have two classes:

public class PageMeta
{
    public PageMeta() { }
    public string DataSource { get; set; }
    public string TopicID { get; set; } 
    public string Title { get; set; }

}

public PersonViewModel()
{
    PageMeta = new PageMeta
    {
        Title = "Test"
    };
    public PageMeta PageMeta { get; set; }
}

Using the following code to create these:

var r = new PersonViewModel();
r.PageMeta.DataSource="abc";
r.PageMeta.TopicID="def";

In real life my classes are more complicated and this is just an example. What I would like to do is to combine the creation of the PersonViewModel with the setting up of the DataSource and TopicID.

var r = new PersonViewModel {
   PageMeta.DataSource="abc";
   PageMeta.TopicID="def";
}

Is there any way that this could be done in C# ?

Answer 1

Yes.

var r = new PersonViewModel {
    PageMeta = {
        DataSource = "abc",
        TopicID = "def"
    }
}