How can I create a more user-friendly string.format syntax?

Question

I need to create a very long string in a program, and have been using String.Format. The problem I am facing is keeping track of all the numbers when you have more than 8-10

Answer 1

not quite the same but sort of spoofing it... use an extension method, a dictionary and a little code:

something like this...

  public static class Extensions {

        public static string FormatX(this string format, params KeyValuePair []  values) {
            string res = format;
            foreach (KeyValuePair kvp in values) {
                res = res.Replace(string.Format("{0}", kvp.Key), kvp.Value.ToString());
            }
            return res;
        }

    }