Can I use a collection initializer for Dictionary entries?

Question

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

public Dictionary GetNames()
{
    Dictionary names =          


        

Answer 1

Yes we can use collection initializer in dictionary.If we have a dictionary like this-

Dictionary<int,string> dict = new Dictionary<int,string>();  
            dict.Add(1,"Mohan");  
            dict.Add(2, "Kishor");  
            dict.Add(3, "Pankaj");  
            dict.Add(4, "Jeetu");

We can initialize it as follow.

Dictionary<int,string> dict = new Dictionary<int,string>  
            {  

                {1,"Mohan" },  
                {2,"Kishor" },  
                {3,"Pankaj" },  
                {4,"Jeetu" }  

            };