Sort a Dictionary by Key and Value?
What If I Want to Sort a Dictionary in C# with the Order Determined by Its Key and Its Value. Like Descending Order by Its Value and Within Those Having the...
What if I want to sort a dictionary in C# with the order determined by its key AND its value. Like descending order by its value and within those having the same value, descending by its key. It seems quite possible to sort only by key or only by value, but by both is quite annoying.
2 Answers
using System.Linq;
...
IOrderedEnumerable<KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue>> sortedCollection = myDictionary
.OrderByDescending(x => x.Value)
.ThenByDescending(x => x.Key);
If you need a more complex ordering scheme, implement an IComparer> to use in the overloaded version of OrderBy or OrderByDescending.
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