Multi-Value Key for a Dictionary

Posted by: Stephen Kaufman's WebLog, on 29 Sep 2008 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

I have a situation in which I need to cache lookup data from a database tables that will be used in the BizTalk Mapper.  The part that makes it interesting is that it is not just key value pairs that I need to cache.  I need to return a value for a 4 part key.  The key needs to be the context (domain), the effective start and end date and the source key.  The .NET framework does not contain an object that will allow you to have a key containing more than one part.  So,...

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