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copied!<p>It's easy with C# 3 <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384062.aspx" rel="nofollow"><em>collection initializers</em></a>, which can still target .NET 2. Using a <code>Dictionary<string, string></code> instead of a <code>Hashtable</code> though (don't use the nongeneric collections unless you really have to<sup>1</sup>):</p> <pre><code>private static readonly Dictionary<string, string> Foo = new Dictionary<string, string> { { "Foo", "Bar" }, { "Key", "Value" }, { "Something", "Else" } }; </code></pre> <p>There's nothing similar in C# 2, if you really have to use that. Are you really still using Visual Studio 2005? Don't forget that you can still target .NET 2 with C# 3 and 4...</p> <p>EDIT: If you <em>really</em> want to do it with C# 2 and hashtables, you could write a static method like this:</p> <pre><code>public static Hashtable CreateHashtable(params object[] keysAndValues) { if ((keysAndValues.Length % 2) != 0) { throw new ArgumentException("Must have an even number of keys/values"); } Hashtable ret = new Hashtable(); for (int i = 0; i < keysAndValues.Length; i += 2) { ret[keysAndValues[i]] = keysAndValues[i + 1]; } return ret; } </code></pre> <p>Then:</p> <pre><code>private static readonly Hashtable Foo = HashtableHelper.CreateHashtable( "key1", "value1", "key2", 10, "key3", 50); </code></pre> <p>I'd really not recommend that though...</p> <hr> <p><sup>1</sup> The same syntax will work with <code>Hashtable</code> if you're using C# 3, but it's really, really worth using the generic collections if you possibly can.</p>

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