ok - this is not what the docs or associated examples clearly state, but i
will take your word for it and assume that the docs are just baked.

this does/can cause a problem though.

if you add a number of items as :
   ld.Add("Item1","value1");
   ld.Add("Item2","value2");
   ld.Add("Item3","value3");

then you can access them as :
   ld["Item1"];
   ld["Item2"];
   ld["Item3"];

but there is no way to access them as :
   ld[0];
   ld[1];
   ld[2];
ie. i want the say the 1st or last item and I have no idea what any of the
contained item ids are.
these all return null which imo they should

this is what the docs state that the Item property was supposed to be for.

I suppose i could do :
   foreach( DictionaryEntry de in ld ) {
        val=de.Value;
       exit;
   }
or
   ((DictionaryEntry)ld.GetEnumerator().Current).Value;
but that seems rather ridiculous to me - mucho overhead.

there is also ld.Keys & ld.Values  but I haven't figure out to actually get
anything out of these 2 properties other than to CopyTo an Array.