Initializing a collection

[michael sorens]

I have seen a few references on the internet on a terse way to initialize
a collection, each of which presents a code sample similar to this:

List<string> animals = new List<string> {
"monkey", "donkey", "cow", "dog", "cat" } ;


But that does not compile under my version of Visual Studio 2005. Are
these folks just misled, or am I missing something here?

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Michael,

That's because this syntax is being used for C# 3.0, which hasn't been
released yet. There is a CTP preview though which you can use. You should
be able to find it on the MSDN site.

Hope this helps.


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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- (e-mail address removed)

I have seen a few references on the internet on a terse way to initialize
a collection, each of which presents a code sample similar to this:

List<string> animals = new List<string> {
"monkey", "donkey", "cow", "dog", "cat" } ;


But that does not compile under my version of Visual Studio 2005. Are
these folks just misled, or am I missing something here?

 

[Claes Bergefall]

I've never heard of a collection initialization list, so I would say they
are misled. Where did you find the code sample?

/claes


I have seen a few references on the internet on a terse way to initialize
a collection, each of which presents a code sample similar to this:

List<string> animals = new List<string> {
"monkey", "donkey", "cow", "dog", "cat" } ;


But that does not compile under my version of Visual Studio 2005. Are
these folks just misled, or am I missing something here?

 

[Linda Liu [MSFT]]

Hi Michael,

I agree with what Nicholas said that this syntax of collection initializer
is put forward in C# 3.0 specification, which has not been released yet.

For more proposed features of C# 3.0, you may refer to the link as follows.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/reference/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us
/dnvs05/html/cs3spec.asp

Hope this helps.


Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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