Assigning values to object properties

Is there a quicker way to do the following? Want to cut down the number of lines of开发者_JAVA技巧 code.

var item = new SpecialObject();
var dictionary = new Dictionary<string, object>();
dictionary.Add("key1", "value1");
dictionary.Add("key2", "value2");

item.Name = "name";
item.Id = 1;
item.Dictionary = dictionary;

Thanks..

You could use object initializers:

var item = new SpecialObject
{
    Id = 1,
    Name = "name",
    Dictionary = new Dictionary<string, object>{
    {    
        {"key1", "value1"},
        {"key2", "value2"}
    }
}

Edit re comments:

Or use a constructor, but i think this is less readable:

calling code:

var item = new SpecialObject(1, "name", new Dictionary<string, object>{
        {"key1", "value1"},
        {"key2", "value2"}
});

ctor:

public SpecialObject(int id, string name, IDictionary<string, object> dict)
{
    this.Id = id;
    this.name = Name;
    this.Dictionary = dict;
}

If you can change SpecialObject, you could (instead of Andrews solution, which may be better):

• introduce a factory
• introduce a builder
• use the constructor

For simple objects like that, i'd go like this:

var item = new SpecialObject(1, "name", new Dictionary<string, object>());
item.Dictionary.Add("key1", "value1");
item.Dictionary.Add("key2", "value2");

This would be a good time to ask yourself why the dictionary does not get initialized in the constructor anyway, feels weird to pass it every time i create a new SpecialObject.