Can't create and initialize list (or hashtable) in one statement...?!

[Big Bird]

System.Collections.Hashtable h = new System.Collections.Hashtable() {
null };

Complains about ";" being expected after '()'.

Using Visual Studio 2005. What's going on?

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

System.Collections.Hashtable h = new System.Collections.Hashtable() {
null };

Complains about ";" being expected after '()'.

Using Visual Studio 2005. What's going on?

What are you expecting the above to do? If you're expecting to use
C# 3's collection initializers, that's part of C# 3 rather than C# 2,
so you can't do it in VS 2005.

 

[Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]]

System.Collections.Hashtable h = new System.Collections.Hashtable() {
null };

Complains about ";" being expected after '()'.

Using Visual Studio 2005. What's going on?

for a list, you can do this:

List<T> list = new List<T>(new T[] { elem1, elem2, elem3, elem4 });