Thursday, January 8, 2015

C# 6.0–Dictionary Initializers

This blog post is part of C# 6.0 Features Series.
As we know c# 6.0 provides some cool new features and syntax sugar. Dictionary Initializers is one of them.  Till C# 5.0 we used to have collection initializers for collections but now C# 6.0 provides new way of initializing dictionary . This initialization features is available for there collections which supports index.

Following is a code for new way of initializing dictionary.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace DictionaryInitializer
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Dictionary<int, string> Person = new Dictionary<int, string>()
            {
                [1] = "Jalpesh Vadgama",
                [2] = "Vishal Vadgama"
            };
            foreach (var person in Person)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Key:{person.Key}, Value={person.Value} ");
            }
        }
    }
}

Here you see I have initialized dictionary in new way in square bracket I have putted key and after equal to sign I have putted values.  Isn’t that look beautiful and much more readable than older version of C# collection initializers.

Let’s run application and Following is a out put as expected.

dictionary-initializers-csharp6

That’s it. Hope you like it. Stay tuned fore more!

You can find all the example of  C# 6.0 new features on this blog  on github  at following location
https://github.com/dotnetjalps/Csharp6NewFeatures
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2 comments:

  1. Needs to be updated with the new syntax.

    It is now

    catch (Exception ex) when (false)

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  2. Are you sure you needed the string.Format?

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