Before i move forward with this part of my project, it strikes me i have 3 separate dictionaries that would all have enough information in a obvious enough format, i would prefer if all 3 were managed from a spreadsheet / table editor. Like google sheets, or excel.

A quick google and GPT search tells me theres no table editor for visual studio, but im guessing theres some way to do this. Each class has about 10 variables, and can easier get to 100~400 rows, so a actual table editor would be very preferred. It would also make it much easier both to manage, and to share with others. And make it easier for others to work with the data.

Anyway, before i really start flailing around myself, i thought to come ask the C# reddit. Whats a good way to have an actual table, that is a thing that visually looks like a table such as sheets, excel, or any plugin for visual studio (doesn't have to be nuts with features, it can take only text for all i care) that can have it's information loaded into a C# project.

I am somewhat newer to C# (year 2) so simple methods would work best. As for preference, i suppose excel, altho i am better with sheets, an offline file seems better to ship with the program. Methods that let me view and edit a table inside visual studio are preferred.

Alternatively,

Things.Add(Name.X, new Thing{ MyName = "X", Int1 = Y, });

if there are other ways to fill a dict then to have hundred of lines of stuff like this, thatd be nice to. Altho really a table is the first that jumps to mind.