How can I shorten List>>?

Question

I want to store an list of key value pair lists in a lightweight structure. This seems too cumbersome. What\'s better? Does List> add

Answer 1

Dictionary< string, string> and List< KeyValuePair< string, string>> could both be fine, depending on what data you wanted to pass around. Also, if you are going to use the same long type all over the place you could define the type somewhere else for a shorthand. Something like this:

public class MyShorthand : List>> { }

Or you can use a using statement to define a type alias like this:

using MyShorthand = System.Collections.Generic.List>>;