Adding items to Dictionary without using Add method in C#

Question

I have items and I want to add them to Dictionary Without using Add method (because it consumes number of lines). Is there any way to add items to Dictionary like

new List<string>() { "P","J","K","L","M" };

or like AddRange Method in List. Any help will be highly appericiated.

Answer 1

Referenced from here

 Dictionary<int, StudentName> students = new Dictionary<int, StudentName>()
 {
   { 111, new StudentName {FirstName="Sachin", LastName="Karnik", ID=211}},
   { 112, new StudentName {FirstName="Dina", LastName="Salimzianova", ID=317}},
   { 113, new StudentName {FirstName="Andy", LastName="Ruth", ID=198}}
};