[RESOLVED] question about classes

if i have a class that contains a hashtable, is it possible to modify the class to access the hashtable members directly (eg. classname["value"]) instead of classname.hashtable["value"]?

I don't really see the point but something like this will work for reading value you can add the set yourself.

Code:

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class MainClass
        {
                private Hashtable tbl = new Hashtable();
               
                public MainClass()
                {
                        tbl.Add("one","number one");
                }
               
                public object this[object key]
                {
                        get{return tbl[key];}
                }
               
                public static void Main(string[] args)
                {
                        MainClass cls = new MainClass();
                        Console.WriteLine(cls["one"].ToString());
                }
               
               
        }

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thanks for the help... will try it tomorrow when i get time.

FYI, i am creating a general class that stores application preferences so i thought this would be a good thing to implement for it. otherwise i would have to create individual properties for accessing each preference.