C# Compare two dictionaries for equality

Question

I want to compare in C# two dictionaries with as keys a string and as value a list of ints. I assume two dictionaries to be equal when they both ha

Answer 1

The accepted answer above will not always return a correct comparison because using a HashSet to compare 2 lists will not account for duplicate values in the lists. For instance if the OP had:

var dict1 = new Dictionary>() { { "A", new List() { 1, 2, 1 } } };
var dict2 = new Dictionary>() { { "A", new List() { 2, 2, 1 } } };

Then the result of the dictionary comparison is they are equal, when they are not. The only solution I see is to sort the 2 list and compare the values by index, but I'm sure someone smarter then me can come up with a more efficient way.