How can I resolve “Item has already been added. Key in dictionary:” errors?

Question

I have an application which got hung up when I tried to add items to it. When I checked the trace file I got this entry:

   for (int i=0; i

        

Answer 1

The exception indicates that you adding same key twice to your dictionary, to solve this issue you can start by insuring that the DataModelCollection objects which passed to the function has unique Key values (which in your case is a Guid data type) dmo.Guid

Answer 2

The problem is that in a sorted list each key needs to be unique. So you need to check that you aren't inserting the same key (guid value) twice. Code shown below:

 for (int i=0; i<objects.Count; i++) 
 {        
    DataModelObject dmo = (DataModelObject)objects.GetAt(i);

    if (!sl.ContainsKey(dmo.Guid))
    {
        sl.Add(dmo.Guid, dmo);
    }
 }

This will ensure that each key is unique. If however you are expecting more than one value for each key then you need to use a different type of collection.