Iterating and creating new anonymous types dynamically

Question

I have an anonymous type of this form:

new List<MyList>()
 {
   new Column { Name="blah", Width=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 ... etc }
   }
 }

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

Answer 1

maybe something like

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

Answer 2

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();

Answer 3

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

Try creating the list first and than filling it,

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