Is there streamlined to convert list/enumberable of KeyValuePair<T, U> to Dictionary<T, U>?
Linq transformation, .ToDictionary() extension did not work.
Is there streamlined to convert list/enumberable of KeyValuePair<T, U> to Dictionary<T, U>?
Linq transformation, .ToDictionary() extension did not work.
.ToDictionary(kvp=>kvp.Key,kvp=>kvp.Value); Isn't that much more work.
You can create your own extension method that would perform as you expect.
public static class KeyValuePairEnumerableExtensions { public static Dictionary<TKey, TValue> ToDictionary<TKey, TValue>(this IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue>> source) { return source.ToDictionary(item => item.Key, item => item.Value); } } This is the best I could produce:
public static IDictionary<TKey, TValue> ToDictionary<TKey, TValue>(IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue>> keyValuePairs) { var dict = new Dictionary<TKey, TValue>(); var dictAsIDictionary = (IDictionary<TKey, TValue>) dict; foreach (var property in keyValuePairs) { (dictAsIDictionary).Add(property); } return dict; } I compared the speed of converting an IEnumerable of 20 million key value pairs to a Dictionary using Linq.ToDictionary with the speed of this one. This one ran in 80% of the time of the Linq version. So it's faster, but not a lot. I think you'd really need to value that 20% saving to make it worth using.