With our new class in place let’s write some code to initialize a dictionary with instances of the Student class.

¨First add the using statement for the generic collections and your own namespace so the class you created is available.

using System.Collections.Generic;
using CODEGROUND;
 // your namespace 

Now, this initialization uses the add method that the compiler generates a call to for each of the pairs key value.

            var students = new Dictionary<int, Student>()
            {
                { 100, new Student { ID = 100, FirstName = "Sherlock", LastName = "Holmes"} },
                { 101, new Student { ID = 101, FirstName = "John", LastName = "Watson"} }
            };

Great! Now in the next and last post we’ll loop through the dictionary.