vb.net Object Initialiser List(Of T)

Question

I have been looking at some C# code:

List Employees = new List{
    new Employee{firstname=\"Aamir\",lastname=\"Hasan\",age=2         


        

Answer 1

EDIT (2)
As pointed out in comments, VB.NET collection initializers have now been introduced, and a lot of the following post should be considered obsolete.

EDIT
Don't always blindly trust the C# to VB.NET converter
Here's a handy tool for online conversion

Turns out VB.NET doesn't have collection initializers. Which means there is no equivalence of

var myList = new List<string>()
{
   "abc",
   "def"
};

... but it does have object initializers. So you can create an instance of a class and assign values to its properties all in one go, but you cannot create an instance of a list and add items to it all in one go.

There closest you can get is in the link above. You can create an Array and add items to it in a single operation, and then you have to ToList that array.

So this time I've actually compiled the code myself, and it works. Sorry for the hassle

    Dim EmployeesTemp As Employee() = { _
        New Employee() With { _
            .firstname = "Aamir", _
            .lastname = "Hasan", _
            .age = 20 _
        }, _
        New Employee() With { _
            .firstname = "awais", _
            .lastname = "Hasan", _
            .age = 50 _
        }, _
        New Employee() With { _
            .firstname = "Bill", _
            .lastname = "Hasan", _
            .age = 70 _
        }, _
        New Employee() With { _
            .firstname = "sobia", _
            .lastname = "khan", _
            .age = 80 _
        } _
    }

    Dim Employees as List(Of Employee) = EmployeesTemp.ToList()

Answer 2

Collection initialisers were added in VB.NET 2010. This is air code, but here goes:

Dim Employees as List(Of Employee) = New List(Of Employee)() From
{ 
    New Employee() With { _   
       .firstname = "Aamir", _
       .lastname = "Hasan", _ 
       .age = 20 _   
    }, _
   New Employee() With { _  
       .firstname = "awais", _  
       .lastname = "Hasan", _ 
       .age = 50 _ 
    }, _ 
   New Employee() With { _ 
       .firstname = "Bill", _ 
       .lastname = "Hasan", _ 
       .age = 70 _ 
    }, _  
   New Employee() With { _ 
       .firstname = "sobia", _ 
       .lastname = "khan", _ 
       .age = 80 _ 
    } _ 
}   

Answer 3

How about this?

Dim Employees As List(Of Employee) = { _
  New Employee() With { .firstname = "Aamir", .lastname = "Hasan", .age = 20 }, _
  New Employee() With { .firstname = "awais", .lastname = "Hasan", .age = 50 }, _
  New Employee() With { .firstname = "Bill",  .lastname = "Hasan", .age = 70 }, _
  New Employee() With { .firstname = "sobia", .lastname = "khan",  .age = 80 } _
}.ToList()