Can I Create a Dictionary of Generic Types?

Question

I\'d like to create a Dictionary object, with string Keys, holding values which are of a generic type. I imagine that it would look something like this:

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Answer 1

Would something like this work?

public class GenericDictionary
{
    private Dictionary _dict = new Dictionary();

    public void Add(string key, T value) where T : class
    {
        _dict.Add(key, value);
    }

    public T GetValue(string key) where T : class
    {
        return _dict[key] as T;
    }
}

Basically it wraps all the casting behind the scenes for you.