Question

I want to use a collection initializer for the next bit of code:

public Dictionary<int, string> GetNames() {     Dictionary<int, string> names = new Dictionary<int, string>();     names.Add(1, 'Adam');     names.Add(2, 'Bart');     names.Add(3, 'Charlie');     return names; } 

So typically it should be something like:

return new Dictionary<int, string> {     1, 'Adam',    2, 'Bart'    ... 

But what is the correct syntax for this?

Answer 1

var names = new Dictionary<int, string> {   { 1, 'Adam' },   { 2, 'Bart' },   { 3, 'Charlie' } };