不能将字典用作VS2010中BuildProcessTemplate的参数？

Question

I am trying to customize my build process template in VS2010. I have added an argument called "temp", of type "Dictionary < String, String >". I want the default value to be: "new Dictionary < String, String > ()"

When I enter the default value, VS complains: "Compiler error encountered process expression [...] '.' expected"

I've tried a few different variations on the default value (semicolon at the end; no semicolon at the end; String vs string; etc.), but haven't gotten it to work. Any ideas?

UPDATE:

I changed the default value to:

new Dictionary(Of String, String)

and that appears to work. However, I still cannot initialize the dictionary like so:

new Dictionary(Of String, String) {   {"cat", "dog"} } 

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Aha! Turns out the "from" syntax works:

New Dictionary(Of String, String) From {{"cat", "dog"}}