VSTO AddIn Form Showing a Dictionary

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I want to display a dictionary on a form in an Outlook 2013 AddIn with VSTO in C#.

Actually I want to display two dictionaries, maybe a large dialog with 2 listbox or something to list the key value pairs, or two tabs each with a listbox or something to display one dict and one tab to display the other dict.

Anyone know the best way to accomplish this? I've tried all the methods I found online and none seem to work. I'm a bit stuck. Anyone know a good way to take achieve this? The dictionaries are created during the AddIn startup within the OutlookRibbon class. I can make them accessible from the outside if need be by making public properties if needed or just make the variables public.

This isn't part of my question, but I want to eventually perform CRUD operations on the dictionaries. If there is a better way to accomplish this than a form with buttons that will manually perform the operatins, I'm all ears. I am not using a database, this is a small addin and I need these dicts to be stored somewhere local and small. They have about 15-25 entries each so they are not big.

Any advice and short examples would be much appreciated and a huge help.

Thanks

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I want to display a dictionary on a form in an Outlook 2013 AddIn with VSTO in C#.

I'd suggest using Outlook form regions in that case. See Creating Outlook Form Regions in MSDN for more information. It is up to you which controls to use on the form (depends on the business logic). .Net framework allows to use a lot of third party controls.

They have about 15-25 entries each so they are not big.

If you don't plan to store a huge amount of entries you may consider storing them in JSON or XML files.