Why are entries in addition order in a .Net Dictionary?

Question

I just saw this behaviour and I\'m a bit surprised by it...

If I add 3 or 4 elements to a Dictionary, and then do a \"For Each\" to get all the keys, they appear in

Answer 1

A dictionary retrieves items in hashed order. The fact that they came out in insertion order was a total coincidence.

The MSDN documentation says:

The order of the keys in the KeyCollection is unspecified, but it is the same order as the associated values in the ValueCollection returned by the Values property.