Question

I tend to write lots of test using boost/unit_test and I tend to generate lots of const data – for instance

#include <vector>
#include <map>
#include <string>

#include <boost/assign.hpp>
#include <boost/assign/list_of.hpp>
#include <boost/assign/std/vector.hpp>
#include <boost/assign/std/map.hpp>

namespace ba = boost::assign;
using namespace std;

const vector<int> my_vector_of_ints = ba::list_of(15)(23)(43)(22)(5)(78);
const map<int, string> my_map = ba::map_list_of(5, "abc")(7, "ddd");

etc. etc. etc.

How do I go about this stuff in C# ?

Answer 1

Try something like this:

readonly List<int> myListOfInts 
    = new List<int> { 15, 23, 43, 22, 5, 78 };
readonly Dictionary<int, string> myMap 
    = new Dictionary<int, string> { { 5, "abc" }, { 7, "ddd" } };

Now C#’s const doesn’t mean the same thing as C++’s const so you will need to realize that these instances are mutable. I have marked these fields as readonly which is about as close as you are going to get.