ToString Generic Method

Wintellect PowerCollections

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Gets a string representation of the mappings in a dictionary. The string representation starts with "{", has a list of mappings separated by commas (", "), and ends with "}". Each mapping is represented by "key->value". Each key and value in the dictionary is converted to a string by calling its ToString method (null is represented by "null"). Contained collections (except strings) are recursively converted to strings by this method.

Namespace: Wintellect.PowerCollections
Assembly: PowerCollections (in PowerCollections.dll)

Syntax

C#
public static string ToString<TKey, TValue>( IDictionary<TKey, TValue> dictionary )

Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Shared Function ToString(Of TKey, TValue) ( _ dictionary As IDictionary(Of TKey, TValue) _ ) As String

Visual C++
public: generic<typename TKey, typename TValue> static String^ ToString ( IDictionary<TKey, TValue>^ dictionary )

Parameters

dictionary: IDictionary<(Of <TKey, TValue>)>
A dictionary to get the string representation of.

Return Value

The string representation of the collection, or "null" if dictionary is null.

Type Parameters

TKey
TValue