"Mr. Land" wrote:

> I have a legacy VB6 DLL that I'm calling from a C# program. I'm using
> the "Add Reference" functionality in VS 2005 to accomplish this.
>
> One of the classes that are implemented in the DLL has a member which
> is an associative array (indexed by strings.)
>
> If I call into the DLL from VB.NET, I can use the following syntax and
> it works just fine:
>
> myElement = DLLObject.elements("Mine")
>
> ....but I can't figure out how to do this from C#. So far I've tried
> the following:
>
> myElement = DLLObject.elements["Mine"];
>
> string strIndex = "Mine";
> myElement = DLLObject.elements[strIndex];
>
> string strIndex = "Mine";
> myElement = DLLObject.elements[ref strIndex];
>
> When I look at the referenced DLL within Visual Studio, about the
> closest thing I can find to what I'm looking for is a method:
> DLLObject.get_Item(ref Object); - but I'm not sure if this is what I
> need to use.
>
> I also see a GetEnumerator() method along with an Add(), but that's
> about it.
>
> Is it possible to do this? If so, what would it look like?
>
> Thank you.
>