Inconsistent debug views of dictionaries

[arturek]

Currently standard dictionary classes have two different ways of showing their content in a debugger. The non-generic dictionary classes (i.e. Hashtable and SortedList) presents keys and values in separate columns:

On the other hand, generic dictionaries show their content as a list indexed by numbers with keys and values together:

I assume, that this difference is not intended, so presenting all of them more consistently would be an improvement. In my opinion, the first view looks better, closer to the idea of a dictionary. The later view is better for lists (or anything indexed by numbers). But choosing any of them should help.

What do you think about it?

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Issue Details

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Currently standard dictionary classes have two different ways of showing their content in a debugger. The non-generic dictionary classes (i.e. Hashtable and SortedList) presents keys and values in separate columns:

On the other hand, generic dictionaries show their content as a list indexed by numbers with keys and values together:

I assume, that this difference is not intended, so presenting all of them more consistently would be an improvement. In my opinion, the first view looks better, closer to the idea of a dictionary. The later view is better for lists (or anything indexed by numbers). But choosing any of them should help.

What do you think about it?

Author:	arturek
Assignees:	-
Labels:	area-System.Collections, untriaged
Milestone:	-

[stephentoub]

Duplicate of #88736

[Neme12]

I like the first option as well. It would be a nice improvement.

[tarekgh]

Closing this as we are tracking the same issue in #88736. @arturek thanks for opening this issue. Feel free to comment more on #88736 if you feel there is anything missing there.