Question

I’ve got a data structure that is Key, Value, OtherValues(key, Value). So the OtherValues are attached to the first Key and aren’t always there. I can do this as Dictionary<Key, ValueAndListOfOptionalValues> where ValueAndListOfOptionalValues is a class with a string and a Dictionary<string, string>.

I’m wondering if that’s really the best way to do it? Sometimes I think that I’m missing some important classes in the Generics namespace, maybe there are better classes out there that I’m not aware of.

Answer 1

I, personally, would use your “custom class” approach.

However, if you want to avoid a custom class (even though there’s no reason to avoid it) you could do:

 Dictionary<string, KeyValuePair<string,Dictionary<string,string>>>

It’s just awfully ugly…