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Asked: 2026-05-24T17:53:22+00:00

Don’t know whether I’m having a "thick day" – but I just wondered what

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Don’t know whether I’m having a "thick day" – but I just wondered what is the best route here.

Context:

I have a list of fields and I want to store alias names with them (I’m using .NET 2.0 BTW) e.g.

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So its essentially a pair of strings:

REFERENCE, Ref

COMMUNITY, Community

POST_CODE, Zip Code

… and I’m thinking it seems overboard all the time to keep creating objects for things like this, so should I create a StringDictionary and store the values that way, even though I would not use any of the functionality of the StringDictionary class and I’m not bothered about a key value pair association etc – I just want to keep a pair of strings essentially.

Any help/pointers would be great.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use the generic Dictionary<string, string> if your “Field Names” are unique.

    Otherwise you could use the Lookup class if you don’t mind duplicate keys.

    I wouldn’t worry too much about whether you use the full functionality of those classes or not. I think the more important concern should be to write simple, easy to read & maintain code.

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