Vista - Converting String Pairs to IDictionary?

I have a string like this

mystring = "color1:blue;color2:red";

I am tring to convert this into an IDictionary populated like this:
color1 blue
color2 red

My non-working syntax is

IDictionary<string,string> tempdict =
new Dictionary<string>(mystring.Split(';').ToDictionary()
).Split(':');

Help?

"coconet" <coconet@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6vre14tild7q6q18tab1va3v5tm8c0cgsd@xxxxxxTry this:- (untested)

IDictionary<string,string> tempdict = new Dictionary<string,string>()
foreach(string[] item in splitItems(mystring.Split(';')))
tempdict.Add(item[0], item[1]);

private static IEnumerable<string[]> splitItems(string input)
{
foreach (string item in input.Split(';'))
yield return item.Split(':');
}

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Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately I am working with an instance class
so i can't do an extension method (I think that's what you're doing).



On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:10:00 +0100, "Anthony Jones"
<Ant@xxxxxx> wrote:

"coconet" <coconet@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:lgvg14lsnaip1s5sq8pg2r7sirqpcfl8f1@xxxxxx
Its not an extension method.

Just because you are working on code designed to run as an instance method
doesn't mean it can't call static methods. I tend to make any method that
doesn't need instance members static. As a private method it doesn't really
matter that much whether its marked as static or not. It just seems more
correct to me.


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Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET