What is the easiest way to handle associative array in c#?

Question

I do not have a lot of experience with C#, yet I am used of working with associative arrays in PHP.

I see that in C# the List class and the Array are available, but I wo

Answer 1

Use the Dictionary class. It should do what you need. Reference is here.

So you can do something like this:

IDictionary dict = new Dictionary();
dict["red"] = 10;
dict["blue"] = 20;