.NET Dictionary as a Property

Question

Can someone point me out to some C# code examples or provide some code, where a Dictionary has been used as a property for a Class.

The examples I have seen so far don\'

Answer 1

You could also look into indexers. (official MSDN documentation here)

class MyClass
{
    private Dictionary data = new Dictionary();

    public MyClass()
    {
        data.Add("Turing, Alan", "Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (pronounced /ˈtjʊ(ə)rɪŋ/) (23 June, 1912 – 7 June, 1954) was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist.")
        //Courtesy of [Wikipedia][3]. Used without permission
    }

    public string this [string index]
    {
        get
        {
            return data[index];
        }
    }
}

Then, once you have populated the dictionary internally, you can access it's information by going

MyClass myExample = new MyClass();

string turingBio = myExample["Turing, Alan"];

EDIT

Obviously, this has to be used carefully, because MyClass is NOT a dictionary, and you cannot use any dictionary methods on it unless you implement them for the wrapper class. But indexers are a great tool in certain situations.