How do you sort a dictionary by value?

Question

I often have to sort a dictionary, consisting of keys & values, by value. For example, I have a hash of words and respective frequencies, that I want to order by frequen

Answer 1

The easiest way to get a sorted Dictionary is to use the built in SortedDictionary class:

//Sorts sections according to the key value stored on "sections" unsorted dictionary, which is passed as a constructor argument
System.Collections.Generic.SortedDictionary sortedSections = null;
if (sections != null)
{
    sortedSections = new SortedDictionary(sections);
}

sortedSections will contain the sorted version of sections