Question

How can I enumerate through an IDictionary? Please refer to the code below.

 public IDictionary<string, string> SelectDataSource
 {
    set
    {
        // This line does not work because it returns a generic enumerator,
        // but mine is of type string,string
        IDictionaryEnumerator enumerator = value.GetEnumerator();
    }
 }

Answer 1

Manual enumeration is very rare (compared to foreach, for example) – the first thing I’d suggest is: check you really need that. However, since a dictionary enumerates as key-value-pair:

IEnumerator<KeyValuePair<string,string>> enumerator = value.GetEnumerator();

should work. Or if it is only a method variable (not a field), then:

var enumerator = value.GetEnumerator();

or better (since if it isn’t a field it probably needs local disposal):

using(var enumerator = value.GetEnumerator())
{ ... }

or best (“KISS”):

foreach(var pair in value)
{ ... }

However, you should also always dispose any existing value when replaced. Also, a set-only property is exceptionally rare. You really might want to check there isn’t a simpler API here… for example, a method taking the dictionary as a parameter.