I am currently initializing a Hashtable in the following way:
Hashtable filter = new Hashtable();
filter.Add("building", "A-51");
filter.Add("apartment", "210");
I am looking for a nicer way to do this.
I tried something like
Hashtable filter2 = new Hashtable() {
{"building", "A-51"},
{"apartment", "210"}
};
However the above code does not compile.
I think the real question being asked may be about imaginable constructors such as:
HashTable ht = new HashTable(MyArray) ; // fill from array
HashTable ht = new HashTable(MyDataTable) ; // fill from datatable
AFAIK, the answer is "no", but you could write it yourself. I assume the reason that such methods are not in the library is that the Array or DataTable has to be properly formed. It's not such a big loss since any implementation of these methods would probably be using the Add method in a loop anyway.