ahbsd.lib 1.4.0

NamedCollections

Named collections have the main reason to be used in dictionaries which have as value a collection. The other way would be to have a dictionary with a dictionary as value which would have as key a string with the name of the collection…

Example

Doing this with Dictionaries it would look like:

Dictionary<int, IDictionary<string, ICollection<double>>> dExample = new Dictionary<int, IDictionary<string, ICollection<double>>>();
IDictionary<string, ICollection<double>> tmp = new Dictionary<string, ICollection<double>>();
ICollection<double> doubleCollection1 = new Collection<double>();
tmp.Add("Double Collection 1", doubleCollection);
dExample.Add(1, tmp);
dExample[1]["Double Collection 1"].Add(1.0);
dExample[1]["Double Collection 1"].Add(1.1);
dExample[1]["Double Collection 1"].Add(1.2);

With using IDictionaryOfNamedCollections it is much easier:

IDictionaryOfNamedCollections<int, double> dExample2 = new DictionaryOfNamedCollections<int, double>();
dExample2.Add(2, 1.0, "Double Collection 2");
dExample2.Add(2, 1.1);
dExample2.Add(2, 1.2);

Not only shorter development, but as well simpler in debugging etc.