Question

I’m using c#, I know you can streamline the creation of new objects

List<String> myStrings = new List<String>() { "Hello", "GoodBye" };

I also use it for creating new treenodes

node_Clicked.Nodes.Add(new TreeNode() { Text = "New Node" });

Pretty useful, however, I would like to use it for list views however when i start writing it:

folder_listView.Items.Add(
    new ListViewItem() 
    { 
        Text = "First Col", 
        SubItems.Add(new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem() 
        { 
            Text = "Second Col" 
        }),

I get Intellisense error:

Invalid initializer member declarator

So I guess that means you can’t instantiate objects within newly instantiated objects because not all the objects (such as lists) inside the newly instantiated object have been instantiated?

Am I right in thinking that?

Cheers

Answer 1

No, the problem is SubItems.Add() is a method, not a property/field. Calling a method is very different from initializing a member!

That said, you would be able to do SubItems = ... if it were settable, but as @RB pointed out, it is not.