C# associative array

Question

I\'ve been using a Hashtable, but by nature, hashtables are not ordered, and I need to keep everything in order as I add them (because I want to pull them out in the same or

Answer 1

Use the KeyedCollection

Its underlying base is a List but provides a dictionary lookup based on key. In this case your key is the strings. So as long as you aren't adding the same key twice you are fine.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms132438.aspx