Does the Enumerator of a Dictionary return key value pairs in the order they were added?

Question

I understand that a dictionary is not an ordered collection and one should not depend on the order of insertion and retrieval in a dictionary.

However, this is what

Answer 1

It is by design that the Dictionary is not an ordered structure as it is intended to be used primarily more for key-based access.

If you have the need to retrieve items in a specific order, you should take a look at the Sorted Dictionary, which takes a Comparer that will be used to sort the keys in the Sorted Dictionary.