Dictionaries, Reflection, Private Fields, and Me...

Tao Te Ka-Ching ― Hello. So the other day at work I was confronted with a problem.  A particular class we use extensively throughout an enterprise solution was using OO to hide a Dictionary<string, object> from me...BUT ALL FOR NAUGHT! Said class has a private field which is basically a Dictionary<string, object> instance.  You could add to it just fine via a public method created for that very purpose.  But as is typical with any ongoing large project, we suddenly needed the ability to remove[...]