System.Collections Namespace

Defines a dictionary key-and-value pair that can be set or retrieved.

The IDictionaryEnumerator.Entry method returns an instance of this class.

The foreach statement of the C# language (for each ...next in Visual Basic) requires the type of each element in the collection. Since each element of a collection based on IDictionary is a key-and-value pair, the element type is not the type of the key or the type of the value. Instead, the element type is DictionaryEntry. For example:

foreach ( DictionaryEntry myEntry in myHashtable ) {
   ...
}

for each myEntry as DictionaryEntry in myHashtable
   ...
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