Does anyone know how to create a shared dictionary object?

[DippyDog]

I have a list of key-value pairs that should be shared, but I don't
know how to code it. The trick for me is how to populate it when it's
instantiated.

Herfried got so close to showing me how in a post some while back with
this code...

Private Shared m_Bla As Dictionary = New Dictionary(...)

Private Shared ReadOnly Property Bla() As Dictionary
Get
Return m_Bla
End Get
End Property

But that doesn't show me how to put anything into the list. I'm on the
verge of doing it in C# since Scott Hanselman's recent post (http://
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/Comme...2#commentstart)
showed populating a dictionary object upon instantiation. The same
post, actually, is the same that's motivating me to clean up my code a
bit, namely using a dictionary to map things instead of a big select
(or "switch" in his post).
Thanks!

[Tom Shelton]

Re: Does anyone know how to create a shared dictionary object?

On 2008-06-19, DippyDog <dippykdog@gmai l.comwrote:

I have a list of key-value pairs that should be shared, but I don't
know how to code it. The trick for me is how to populate it when it's
instantiated.
>
Herfried got so close to showing me how in a post some while back with
this code...
>

Private Shared m_Bla As Dictionary

Shared Sub New ()
m_Bla = new Dictionary()
m_Bla.Add("one" , 1)
m_Bla.Add("Two" , 2)
...
End Sub

Private Shared ReadOnly Property Bla() As Dictionary
Get
Return m_Bla
End Get
End Property

HTH
--
Tom Shelton

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Re: Does anyone know how to create a shared dictionary object?

Dippy Dog,

You cannot instance a shared class or its equivalent a module.

The methods exist as everything simple constantly in your program in memory
as long as your program runs, so you can create a method in the shared class
or module which you use at startup to fill the dictionary.

Cor

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>I have a list of key-value pairs that should be shared, but I don't
know how to code it. The trick for me is how to populate it when it's
instantiated.
>
Herfried got so close to showing me how in a post some while back with
this code...
>
Private Shared m_Bla As Dictionary = New Dictionary(...)
>
Private Shared ReadOnly Property Bla() As Dictionary
Get
Return m_Bla
End Get
End Property
>
But that doesn't show me how to put anything into the list. I'm on the
verge of doing it in C# since Scott Hanselman's recent post (http://
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/Comme...2#commentstart)
showed populating a dictionary object upon instantiation. The same
post, actually, is the same that's motivating me to clean up my code a
bit, namely using a dictionary to map things instead of a big select
(or "switch" in his post).
Thanks!

[Tom Shelton]

Re: Does anyone know how to create a shared dictionary object?

On 2008-06-20, Cor Ligthert[MVP] <notmyfirstname @planet.nlwrote :

Dippy Dog,
>
You cannot instance a shared class or its equivalent a module.
>
The methods exist as everything simple constantly in your program in memory
as long as your program runs, so you can create a method in the shared class
or module which you use at startup to fill the dictionary.
>
Cor
>

That's what Shared constructor's (Shared Sub New) is for :)

--
Tom Shelton

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Re: Does anyone know how to create a shared dictionary object?

Tom,

I was in doubt, did not know if you had misread it, or that I was not aware
that the Sub New could be used as that. I was sure that you would reply as
it was like that.

:-)

Cor


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On 2008-06-20, Cor Ligthert[MVP] <notmyfirstname @planet.nlwrote :

>Dippy Dog,
>>
>You cannot instance a shared class or its equivalent a module.
>>
>The methods exist as everything simple constantly in your program in
>memory
>as long as your program runs, so you can create a method in the shared
>class
>or module which you use at startup to fill the dictionary.
>>
>Cor
>>

>
That's what Shared constructor's (Shared Sub New) is for :)
>
--
Tom Shelton