System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary

Added in .NET 2.0
This type of collection represents a collection on keys and values
Every value has a unique key associated with it.
This uses has tables to stire keys and values
Objects made available through unique keys.
You can indicate the data type of both the key and value at declaration
Items are stored through the related KeyValuePair class

DictionaryEntry is actually a KeyValuePair
This is built-in when you have a dictionary

System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary myDictionary; 
myDictionary = new System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, System.DateTime>(); 

myDictionary.Add("Mon", new System.DateTime(2020,10,3)); 
myDictionary.Add("Tue", new System.DateTime(2021,10,3)); 
myDictionary.Add("Wed", new System.DateTime(2022,10,3)); 

if (myDictionary.ContainsKey("Tue") 
{ 
   System.DateTime myDateTime; 
   myDateTime = (System.DateTime)myDictionary["Tue"]; 
} 

This is how you can access the keys and values
The entry in the dictionary is an instance of KeyValuePair<string, DateTime>.

foreach (System.Collections.Generic.KeyValuePair<string, System.DateTime> kvp in myDictionary) 
{ 
   string myText; 
   myText = System.String.Format("Key={0}, Value={1}",kvp.Key, kvp.Value); 
} 

Print the Keys

System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, System.DateTime>.KeyCollection myKeys; 
myKeys = myDictionary.Keys; 
foreach (string myKey in myKeys) 
{ 
   System.Console.WriteLine(myKey); 
} 

Print the Values

System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, System.DateTime>.ValueCollection myValues; 
myValues = myDictionary.Values; 
foreach (System.DateTime myValue in myValues) 
{ 
   System.Console.WriteLine(myValue); 
} 

Different types of key,pairs

String Items - System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary(Of String, String) - These are referenced in code as Dictionary
String Array Items - System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary(Of String, String()) - These are referenced in code as Dictionary Arrays

Group of DataGridViewRows

System.Collections.Gernic.Dictionary<int, System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewRow> dicRows; 

dicRows = new System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<int, System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView>(); 
dicRows.Add(key,value) 
dicRows.Add(objdatagridview.cells(0).rowindex, objdatagridviewrow) 

Dim dicRows As System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary(Of Integer, System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewRow) 

dicRows = New System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary(Of Integer, System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewRow) 
dicRows.Add(key,value) 
dicRows.Add(objdatagridview.cells(0).rowindex, objdatagridviewrow) 

Group of Objects

System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, MyObject>(); 
dicObjects = new System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, MyObject>(); 

You can also obtain a collection from the Dictionary
KeyCollection
ValueCollection

Does an Element Exist

If dicAuthors.Keys.Contains("002" 

If dicAuthors.ContainsKeys("002") = True Then 

End If