Honestly you don't need to build your own collection "wrapper" around a Dictionary, but if you must, you can delegate pretty much all the calls to the dictionary for the implementation of the ICollection interface.
Hope this helps
public class Ts: ICollection<T>
{
private Dictionary<string, T> inventory= new Dictionary<string,T>();
//public void Add(string s, int q)
//{
// inventory.Add(s, new T(s,q));
//}
public void Add(T item)
{
inventory.Add(item.ItemName,item);
}
public void Add(string s, int q)
{
inventory.Add(s, new T(s, q));
}
public void Clear()
{
inventory.Clear();
}
public bool Contains(T item)
{
return inventory.ContainsValue(item);
}
public void CopyTo(T[] array, int arrayIndex)
{
inventory.Values.CopyTo(array, arrayIndex);
}
public int Count
{
get { return inventory.Count; }
}
public bool IsReadOnly
{
get { return false; }
}
public bool Remove(T item)
{
return inventory.Remove(item.ItemName);
}
public System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerator<T> GetEnumerator()
{
return inventory.Values.GetEnumerator();
}
IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
{
return inventory.Values.GetEnumerator();
}
}
class Program
{
Ts ts = new Ts { { "a", 1 }, { "b", 2 } };
foreach (T t in ts)
{
Console.WriteLine("{0}:{1}",t.ItemName,t.Quantity);
}
}