What is the leanest way to convert a Dictionary to a Dictionary?

Question

I'm using an API that returns a key-value collection as a `Dictionary`. I need to convert that to a `Dictionary`. I have a sense that there should be a way to do this conversion/mapping without "manually" looping through each key-value pair, but Googling or the C# object reference didn't immediately yield a solution.

Accepted Answer

Try the following

```
var newMap = oldMap.ToDictionary(pair => pair.Key, pair=>(object)pair.Value);
```

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