How to convert object to Dictionary in C#?

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The above answers are all cool. I found it easy to json serialize the object and deserialize as a dictionary.

var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(obj);
var dictionary = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, string>>(json);

I don’t know how performance is effected but this is much easier to read. You could also wrap it inside a function.

public static Dictionary<string, TValue> ToDictionary<TValue>(object obj)
{       
    var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(obj);
    var dictionary = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, TValue>>(json);   
    return dictionary;
}

Use like so:

var obj = new { foo = 12345, boo = true };
var dictionary = ToDictionary<string>(obj);

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