Recreating a Dictionary from an IEnumerable

I have a method that returns an IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, ArrayList>>, but some of the callers require the result of the method to be a dictionary. How can I convert the IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, ArrayList>> into a Dictionary<string, ArrayList> so that I can use TryGetValue? method: public IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, ArrayList>> GetComponents() { // … yield return new KeyValuePair<string, ArrayList>(t.Name, controlInformation); … Read more