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Put an element into the Dictionary

  

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using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Text;


namespace Dotnet.Commons.Collections
{

  ///  
  /// <summary>  
  /// 
  /// This utility class extends the operations for manipulating 
  /// Dictionary collections.
  ///
  ///
  /// </summary>  
  /// 
  public class DictionaryUtils
  {
    private DictionaryUtils()
    {      
    }

        /// <summary>
        /// Put an element into the Dictionary
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="IDictionary"></param>
        /// <param name="key"></param>
        /// <param name="newValue"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static object PutElement(IDictionary dict,
                                                object key,
                                                object newValue)
        {
            System.Object element = dict[key];
            dict[key] = newValue;
            return element;
        }

    public static string ToString(IDictionary srcDict)
    {
      if (srcDict == null)
        return String.Empty;

      StringBuilder buffy = new StringBuilder();

      buffy.Append("[");
      buffy.Append(srcDict.GetType().ToString());
      buffy.Append("] @");
      buffy.Append(srcDict.GetHashCode());
            buffy.Append(Environment.NewLine);

      foreach(object key in srcDict.Keys)
      {
        buffy.Append("{");
        buffy.Append(key.ToString());
        buffy.Append("=");
        buffy.Append(srcDict[key].ToString());
        buffy.Append("}");
                buffy.Append(Environment.NewLine);
      }
      return buffy.ToString();
    }

    }
}

   
    
  








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