Iterating and creating new anonymous types dynamically

I have an anonymous type of this form:

new List<MyList>()
{
   new Column { Name = "blah", W开发者_Go百科idth = 100, Hidden = true },
   new Column { Name = "blah1", Width = 60, Hidden = false }
} 

How can I go about creating the content within the list dynamically, like:

new List<MyList>()
{
    foreach (var columns in col) 
    {
       new Column { Name = columns.Name ... }
    }
} 

Even with col returning the right sort of data, the above example isn't acceptable and I can't see why.

You try to loop over the collection inside the object initializer block (thx to Luke).

Try creating the list first and than filling it,

var list = new List<MyList>();

foreach (var columns in col) 
{
    list.Add(new Column { Name = columns.Name ... });
}

Not sure exactly what you're asking, but have you tried something of the form:

col.Select(c => new Column {Name = c.Name ... etc}).ToList();

maybe something like

var theList = new List<MyList>();
col.ForEach(c=> theList.Add( new Column(){ Name=c.Name ... etc } ));