What's the best way of using a pair (triple, etc) of values as one value in C#?

Question

That is, I\'d like to have a tuple of values.

The use case on my mind:

Dictionary, object>

or

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Answer 1

You could use System.Collections.Generic.KeyValuePair as your Pair implementation.

Or you could just implement your own, they aren't hard:

public class Triple
{
  public T First {get;set;}
  public U Second {get;set;}
  public V Third {get;set;}
}

Of course, you may someday run into a problem that Triple(string, int, int) is not compatible with Triple(int, int, string). Maybe go with System.Xml.Linq.XElement instead.