Prefix search through list/dictionary using .NET StringDictionary?

Question

I was wondering if .NET offers any standard functionality for doing a prefix search through a list or a dictionary object. I came across the StringDictionary, b

Answer 1

I think the StringDictionary is old school (pre-generics). You should probably use a Dictionary(Of String, String) instead because it implements IEnumerable (think LINQ). One extremely lame thing about StringDictionary is that it's case-insensitive.