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HOW TO CREATE SPFieldLookup programmatically

This is a nice snippet I saw and will like to share

Let us assume we have two list aList and bList already created.

Requirement is to create a lookup column in aList which will look up values in bList.

SPList aList = web.Lists["aList"];
SPList bList = web.Lists["bList"];

aList.Fields.AddLookup("Lookup", bList.ID, false);
SPFieldLookup fldLookup = aList.Fields["Lookup"] as SPFieldLookup;

fldLookup.LookupField = bList.Fields[SPBuiltInFieldId.Title].InternalName;
fldLookup.Update();

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