.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

In order to ensure the encapsulation is correct and the dictionary cannot be updated outside the class using Add or the form ExampleDictionary[1]= "test", use IReadOnlyDictionary.

public class Example
{
    private Dictionary exampleDictionary;

    public Example() 
    { 
        exampleDictionary = new Dictionary(); 
    }

    public IReadOnlyDictionary ExampleDictionary
    {
        get { return (IReadOnlyDictionary)exampleDictionary; }
    }
}

The following code will not work, which is not the case if IDictionary is used:

var example = new Example();
example.ExampleDictionary[1] = test;