Thanks, Gregory. I implemented something like that, but I think I need to make the dictionary private. I also added a public static boolean property telling me when to re-build it (after each save of the preferences).

>There may be a reason why it's rebuilt every time. You'll need to look into that.
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>static private  Dictionary<string, object> PreferencesDictionary =   BuildPreferencesDictionary();
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> static public Dictionary<string, object> GetPreferenceDictionary()
>        {
>            return PreferencesDictionary;
>        }
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>>Hi everybody,
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>>I see the following code being called:
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>> static public Dictionary<string, object> GetPreferenceDictionary()
>>        {
>>            return BuildPreferencesDictionary();
>>        }
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>>and then in the same class
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>> static private Dictionary<string, object> BuildPreferencesDictionary()
>>        {
>>            Dictionary<string, object> preferenceDictionary = new Dictionary<string, object>();
>>           //loading code here
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>>            return preferenceDictionary;
>>        }
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>>this method is called many times.
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>>Why cannot we just return the dictionary if it was already created? What do I need to change here to make this simpler and to build only once?
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>>Thanks in advance.