Id and its Details

[Mikeyyy]

First time to pose a question on this board...fairly new to C# too, so please go easy :-D I want to do something like this in Generics:

List myList = new List();

This blows up obviously...any workarounds? Thanks! Mikeyyy

[Mikeyyy]

I don't know why, but half of the syntax didn't show: List myList = new List();

[Tarakeshwar Reddy]

Thats because it's expecting T which is the type of element in the list. If your creating a list of strings then you should declare it as List<string> myList = new List<string>();

[Tarakeshwar Reddy]

Ignore my other reply, I assumed you didn't pass the type of element, the html formatting actually removed it. The list can have only one type, so it would be List<string> myList = new List<string>(); or List<int> myList = new List<int>(); If your are looking at having a KeyedList then have a look at this article[^]

[Martin 0]

Hello, Maybe Dictonary is what you are looking for.

using System.Collections.Generic;
Dictionary openWith = new Dictionary();

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xfhwa508.aspx[^] Hope it helps! All the best, Martin

[Colin Angus Mackay]

If you are trying to store two items for each element in the list then you should be creating a class.

class DtoListItem
{
public int SomeInt;
public string[] SomeStringArray;
}

// In some method somewhere...
List<DtoListItem> myList = new List<DtoListItem>();

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