Tips on using a hashtable

Wow!  That's perfect.

Thanks.

I was intending to store two doubles for each cell, but when I saw your code, decided it would be most easy to save the two as a single comma delimited string.  But now I think it might cost me memory, which could get costly since I expect to have ini excess of 75,000 items in the hashtable.  So that brings me to ask, how would I go about storing two doubles for each TwoKey object?

Thanks again for the help.

create a struct or a class to hold the data you want to store with an associated key.  Here is code below to store 2 doubles associated with 2 keys

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data;

namespace HashTableExample
{
      /// <summary>
      /// Summary description for Form1.
      /// </summary>
      public class frmMain : System.Windows.Forms.Form
      {
            private System.Windows.Forms.Label label1;
            private System.Windows.Forms.Label label2;
            private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtKey1;
            private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtKey2;
            private System.Windows.Forms.Label label3;
            private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtValue;
            private System.Windows.Forms.Button btnGetValue;
            private System.Windows.Forms.Button btnSetValue;
            private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtValue2;
            private System.Windows.Forms.Label label4;
            /// <summary>
            /// Required designer variable.
            /// </summary>
            private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null;

            public frmMain()
            {
                  //
                  // Required for Windows Form Designer support
                  //
                  InitializeComponent();

                  //
                  // TODO: Add any constructor code after InitializeComponent call
                  //
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Clean up any resources being used.
            /// </summary>
            protected override void Dispose( bool disposing )
            {
                  if( disposing )
                  {
                        if (components != null)
                        {
                              components.Dispose();
                        }
                  }
                  base.Dispose( disposing );
            }

            #region Windows Form Designer generated code
            /// <summary>
            /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
            /// the contents of this method with the code editor.
            /// </summary>
            private void InitializeComponent()
            {
                  this.label1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
                  this.label2 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
                  this.txtKey1 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
                  this.txtKey2 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
                  this.label3 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
                  this.txtValue = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
                  this.btnGetValue = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
                  this.btnSetValue = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
                  this.txtValue2 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
                  this.label4 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
                  this.SuspendLayout();
                  //
                  // label1
                  //
                  this.label1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(8, 8);
                  this.label1.Name = "label1";
                  this.label1.TabIndex = 0;
                  this.label1.Text = "Key1";
                  //
                  // label2
                  //
                  this.label2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(8, 40);
                  this.label2.Name = "label2";
                  this.label2.TabIndex = 1;
                  this.label2.Text = "Key2";
                  //
                  // txtKey1
                  //
                  this.txtKey1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(120, 8);
                  this.txtKey1.Name = "txtKey1";
                  this.txtKey1.TabIndex = 2;
                  this.txtKey1.Text = "";
                  //
                  // txtKey2
                  //
                  this.txtKey2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(120, 40);
                  this.txtKey2.Name = "txtKey2";
                  this.txtKey2.TabIndex = 3;
                  this.txtKey2.Text = "";
                  //
                  // label3
                  //
                  this.label3.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(8, 72);
                  this.label3.Name = "label3";
                  this.label3.TabIndex = 4;
                  this.label3.Text = "Value";
                  //
                  // txtValue
                  //
                  this.txtValue.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(120, 72);
                  this.txtValue.Name = "txtValue";
                  this.txtValue.TabIndex = 5;
                  this.txtValue.Text = "";
                  //
                  // btnGetValue
                  //
                  this.btnGetValue.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(24, 136);
                  this.btnGetValue.Name = "btnGetValue";
                  this.btnGetValue.TabIndex = 6;
                  this.btnGetValue.Text = "Get Value";
                  this.btnGetValue.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.btnGetValue_Click);
                  //
                  // btnSetValue
                  //
                  this.btnSetValue.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(128, 136);
                  this.btnSetValue.Name = "btnSetValue";
                  this.btnSetValue.TabIndex = 7;
                  this.btnSetValue.Text = "Set Value";
                  this.btnSetValue.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.btnSetValue_Click);
                  //
                  // txtValue2
                  //
                  this.txtValue2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(120, 104);
                  this.txtValue2.Name = "txtValue2";
                  this.txtValue2.TabIndex = 9;
                  this.txtValue2.Text = "";
                  //
                  // label4
                  //
                  this.label4.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(8, 104);
                  this.label4.Name = "label4";
                  this.label4.TabIndex = 8;
                  this.label4.Text = "Value 2";
                  //
                  // frmMain
                  //
                  this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13);
                  this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(384, 302);
                  this.Controls.Add(this.txtValue2);
                  this.Controls.Add(this.label4);
                  this.Controls.Add(this.btnSetValue);
                  this.Controls.Add(this.btnGetValue);
                  this.Controls.Add(this.txtValue);
                  this.Controls.Add(this.label3);
                  this.Controls.Add(this.txtKey2);
                  this.Controls.Add(this.txtKey1);
                  this.Controls.Add(this.label2);
                  this.Controls.Add(this.label1);
                  this.Name = "frmMain";
                  this.Text = "Hash Table Example";
                  this.ResumeLayout(false);

            }
            #endregion

            /// <summary>
            /// The main entry point for the application.
            /// </summary>
            [STAThread]
            static void Main()
            {
                  Application.Run(new frmMain());
            }

            private void btnGetValue_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
            {
                  TwoKeys twoKeys = new TwoKeys(txtKey1.Text.Trim(), txtKey2.Text.Trim());
                  if(hashtable.ContainsKey(twoKeys))
                  {
                        TwoValues tv = (TwoValues)hashtable[twoKeys];
                        txtValue.Text = tv.value1.ToString();
                        txtValue2.Text = tv.value2.ToString();
                  }
                  else
                  {
                        txtValue.Text = "Not Found!";
                        txtValue2.Text = "Not Found!";
                  }
            }

            private void btnSetValue_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
            {
                  TwoKeys twoKeys = new TwoKeys(txtKey1.Text.Trim(), txtKey2.Text.Trim());
                  if(hashtable.ContainsKey(twoKeys))
                  {
                        hashtable[twoKeys] = new TwoValues(Convert.ToDouble(txtValue.Text), Convert.ToDouble(txtValue2.Text));
                  }
                  else
                  {
                        hashtable.Add(twoKeys, new TwoValues(Convert.ToDouble(txtValue.Text), Convert.ToDouble(txtValue2.Text)));
                  }

            }

            private Hashtable hashtable = new Hashtable();

            private class TwoKeys
            {
                  public TwoKeys(string key1, string key2)
                  {
                        this.key1 = key1;
                        this.key2 = key2;
                  }

                  public override bool Equals(object obj)
                  {
                        TwoKeys rhs = obj as TwoKeys;
                        if(rhs == null)
                        {
                              return base.Equals(obj);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                              if(Key1 == rhs.Key1 && Key2 == rhs.Key2)
                                    return true;
                              else
                                    return false;
                        }
                  }

                  public override int GetHashCode()
                  {
                        int result = 1000 * Key1.GetHashCode() + Key2.GetHashCode();
                        return result;
                  }



                  public string Key1
                  {
                        get
                        {
                              return key1;
                        }
                  }
                  private string key1;

                  public string Key2
                  {
                        get
                        {
                              return key2;
                        }
                  }
                  private string key2;
            }

            private struct TwoValues
            {
                  public TwoValues(double value1, double value2)
                  {
                        this.value1 = value1;
                        this.value2 = value2;
                  }

                  public double value1;
                  public double value2;
            }
      }
}

Thanks.  Got it.