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I am using a nested ordered dictionary called toolSystem to store tools into categories and subtypes. The toolSystem.add is adding the categories and the gardeningTools.Add are adding the subtypes for that categorie (eg toolSystem has the categorie gardeningTools and a subtype of lineTrimer which is array of tools class).

As part of a refactor of a large PowerShell program from PS2.0, functions and scripting quick practices to PS5.0, classes and programming best practices, I have been moving to strong typing everywhere and finding some places where that brings up questions. The latest one being hash tables. With both [Array] and [Hashtable] you can have a mix of content, which then makes enumerating that collection impossible to strongly type. For Arrays you have options like [String[]] or moving to Generic Lists with [System.Collections.Generic.List[String]]. But Dictionaries seem to pose a problem. I can't find a way to create a dictionary and limit it's values to a particular type. Something like [System.Collections.Specialized.OrderedDictionary[Int32,Int32]] fails. So, IS there a way to make Dictionaries and OrderedDictionaries with strong typing of the index, the value or both? And if there isn't a way, is this considered a bit of a problem that must be overcome, or not a problem and if so why is it not a problem?

I am trying to validate some XML with verbose logging of issues, including required order of attributes and miscapitalization. If the required order of attributes is one, two, three and the XML in question has one, three, two I want to log it. And if an attributes is simply miscapitalized, say TWO instead of two I want to log that as well. Currently I have two arrays, $ordered with the names of the attributes as they should be (correct capitalization) and $miscapitalized with the names of the miscapitalized attributes. So, given attributes of one, three, TWO and required order of one, two, three

$ordered = one, two, three

$miscapitalized = TWO

From here I want to append the miscapitalizion, so a new variable

$logged = one, two (TWO), three

I can get the index of $ordered where the miscapitalization occurs with

I have an OrderedDictionary d filled with string keys (+ objects as the value). I need to copy the dictionary keys to a HashSet hs.

I am doing it now like this:

I need a dictionary that can be sorted. I think Spring4D TOrderedDictionary is a class implementing that but I cannot make it work: sorting doesn't work.

I build a small test program showing the issue I have:

I would like to exclude some types for being used in a generic class. I know how to make constrains in order to make sure a generic type is some kind of (interface) type. But I can't seem to figure out how to exclude (multiple) types.

For instance: I want a generic class to exclude ints and uints (but don't exclude DateTime for instance, so not all Primitives may be excluded).

I can't do something like this:

I wish to export a hashtable result into Out-GridView using the Powershell.

The purpose of the below script is to export the Azure VM tags to Out-GridView, it throws error like the below blank result:

Error on the console:

I cannot manage to find values from my OrderedDictionary, I was following several posts on the stack, so I don't see what I am not doing good?

I am trying to use the method outlined here to create a number of custom data types, and rather than having a line for each I would like to define a hash table of the names and types like this