Is there a more elegant way of adding an item to a Dictionary<> safely?

Question

I need to add key/object pairs to a dictionary, but I of course need to first check if the key already exists otherwise I get a \"key already exists in dictionary

Answer 1

As usual John Skeet gets in there with lighting speed with the right answer, but interestingly you could also have written your SafeAdd as an Extension Method on IDictionary.

public static void SafeAdd(this IDictionary. dict, K key, T value)...