>>>Thanks a lot in advance.
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>>prefsRetailViewModel.AvailableTrackingColumns = this.trackingLookupOrderColumns.Keys.Except(prefsRetailViewModel.Keys);

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>This is close, but also not working. The AvailableTrackingColumns is also a Dictionary, so I need to get them with the values. If I can get a list of keys with the above method, can I then somehow grab that portion of the Dictionary (using these keys) in one simple call?
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>I can, of course, just iterate through keys, but I wanted to use LINQ capabilities and I'm sure there is some smart way of grabbing the relevant dictionary entries.


something along this line (not tested):

var result = newDic
    .Where(kvp => !oldDic.ContainsKey(kvp.Key))
    .ToDictionary(kvp => kvp.Key, kvp => kvp.Value);