Is there any syntax to shorten setting variables on object in new C#

August 8, 2022

Im curious if there is any way to shorten this code, or make it in one line / statement,

        var terraformProcess = new Process();
        terraformProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "terraform";
        terraformProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
        terraformProcess.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = Path.Combine(repoPath,"terraform");
        Console.WriteLine(terraformProcess.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory);
        terraformProcess.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
        terraformProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = "init";
        terraformProcess.Start();
        terraformProcess.WaitForExit();

        terraformProcess.StartInfo.Arguments =
            $"destroy --var-file=current.tfvars -auto-approve -var vcd_user={_terraformConf.vdcUsername} -var vcd_pass={CryptoServices.Decode(_terraformConf.encryptedVdcPass)} -no-color";
        terraformProcess.Start();
        var output = terraformProcess.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
        terraformProcess.WaitForExit();

Ive tried:

var startInfo = new StartInfo {
FileName = "terraform",
WorkingDirectory = Path.Combine(repoPath,"terraform");
RedirectStandardOutput = true;
Arguments = "init";
};

then assigning it to Process.StartInfo, but it looks like there is only getter on Process.StartInfo.

Im just curious if there is a shorter way of doing that, without repeating so many lines.

>Solution :

You can use object initializer syntax on multiple levels, i.e

var terraformProcess = new Process
{
    StartInfo =
    {
        FileName = "terraform",
        UseShellExecute = true,
        // etc ...
    }
};

You can read up more on object and collection initializers here, it’s an incredibly handy piece syntactic sugar