A dictionary where value is an anonymous type in C#

Question

Is it possible in C# to create a System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary where TKey is unconditioned class and TValue

Answer 1

As itowlson said, you can't declare such a beast, but you can indeed create one:

static IDictionary NewDictionary(TKey key, TValue value)
{
    return new Dictionary();
}

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var dict = NewDictionary(new {ID = 1}, new { Column = "Dollar", Localized = "Доллар" });
}

It's not clear why you'd actually want to use code like this.