Omer van Kloeten's .NET Zen

Linq: The Missing ToDictionary Extension Method Overload

Enumerating over a Dictionary<TKey, TValue> you will get structs of type KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue>. Whenever you use the ToDictionary extension method, you are forced to specify how to get the key and value for each item, even if it's an enumeration of KeyValuePairs. Seems a bit redundant, doesn't it?

public static Dictionary<TKey, TValue> ToDictionary<TKey, TValue>(this IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue>> enumeration)
{
    // Check to see that enumeration is not null
    if (enumeration == null)
        throw new ArgumentNullException("enumeration");

    return enumeration.ToDictionary(item => item.Key, item => item.Value);
}

Well, that little bit of code settles that. :)