Separate list of objects

Question

User-2089506584 posted

Hello,

Why I couldn't have a separate list of objects of the same class?

This one works,

Dim list As New List(Of Address)

            list.Add(New Address With { _
                     .Country = "USA", _
                     .State = "New York" _
                    })

Return list.ToList

not, [:(]

Dim list As New List(Of Address)

            list.Add(New Address With { _
                     .Country = "USA" _
                    })

            list.Add(New Address With { _
                     .State = "New York" _
                    })

Return list.ToList

I'm getting "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

-imperialx

Answer 1

User191633014 posted

in second case you add 2  Address classes:

First with set Country, second with set State.

Answer 2

User614805505 posted

Dear imperialx,

Can show ur Address class?

Answer 3

User-952121411 posted

Yes I think you need to show some details about at least those (2) properties on the 'Address' class because the syntax you provide does indeed work.  Take a look at my code below for a Customer class.  I get no issues as you have:

Dim MyCustomer As New List(Of Customer)

MyCustomer.Add(New Customer With { _
         .FirstName = "John"})

MyCustomer.Add(New Customer With { _
         .LastName = "Smith"})

Now since the 'New' keyword was used, it creates (2) separate instances and adds them to the list.  If for some reason you wanted to add the property values at different times to the same instance, you would have to reference it by .Item index.  For the code above though, here is the output:

?MyCustomer.Item(0)

{MyApp.Customer}

FirstName: "John"

ID: 0

LastName: ""

mFirstName: "John"

mID: 0

mLastName: ""

?MyCustomer.Item(1)

{MyApp.Customer}

FirstName: ""

ID: 0

LastName: "Smith"

mFirstName: ""

mID: 0

mLastName: "Smith"