DictionaryEntry Structure
Defines a dictionary key/value pair that can be set or retrieved.
Namespace: System.Collections
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
The DictionaryEntry type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
  | DictionaryEntry | Initializes an instance of the DictionaryEntry type with the specified key and value. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Equals | Indicates whether this instance and a specified object are equal. (Inherited from ValueType.) |
| GetHashCode | Returns the hash code for this instance. (Inherited from ValueType.) |
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
| ToString | Returns the fully qualified type name of this instance. (Inherited from ValueType.) In XNA Framework 3.0, this member is inherited from Object.ToString(). |
The IDictionaryEnumerator.Entry method returns an instance of this type.
The foreach statement of the C# language (for each in Visual C++, For Each in Visual Basic) requires the type of each element in the collection. Since each element of the IDictionary is a key/value pair, the element type is not the type of the key or the type of the value. Instead, the element type is DictionaryEntry. For example:
The foreach statement is a wrapper around the enumerator, which only allows reading from, not writing to, the collection.
The following example demonstrates the use of DictionaryEntry to iterate through a Hashtable object.
// A simple example for the DictionaryEntry structure. using System; using System.Collections; class Example { public static void Main() { // Create a new hash table. // Hashtable openWith = new Hashtable(); // Add some elements to the hash table. There are no // duplicate keys, but some of the values are duplicates. openWith.Add("txt", "notepad.exe"); openWith.Add("bmp", "paint.exe"); openWith.Add("dib", "paint.exe"); openWith.Add("rtf", "wordpad.exe"); // When you use foreach to enumerate hash table elements, // the elements are retrieved as DictionaryEntry objects. Console.WriteLine(); foreach (DictionaryEntry de in openWith) { Console.WriteLine("Key = {0}, Value = {1}", de.Key, de.Value); } } } /* This code example produces output similar to the following: Key = rtf, Value = wordpad.exe Key = txt, Value = notepad.exe Key = dib, Value = paint.exe Key = bmp, Value = paint.exe */
