Proper way to initialize a C# dictionary with values?

Question

I am creating a dictionary in a C# file with the following code:

private readonly Dictionary FILE_TYPE_DICT
        = new Dictiona         


        

Answer 1

Suppose we have a dictionary like this

Dictionary dict = new Dictionary();
dict.Add(1, "Mohan");
dict.Add(2, "Kishor");
dict.Add(3, "Pankaj");
dict.Add(4, "Jeetu");

We can initialize it as follow.

Dictionary dict = new Dictionary  
{
    { 1, "Mohan" },
    { 2, "Kishor" },
    { 3, "Pankaj" },
    { 4, "Jeetu" }
};