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

Suppose we have a dictionary as

   Dictionary dict = new Dictionary();
   dict.Add(21,1041);
   dict.Add(213, 1021);
   dict.Add(45, 1081);
   dict.Add(54, 1091);
   dict.Add(3425, 1061);
   sict.Add(768, 1011);

1) you can use temporary dictionary to store values as :

        Dictionary dctTemp = new Dictionary();

        foreach (KeyValuePair pair in dict.OrderBy(key => key.Value))
        {
            dctTemp .Add(pair.Key, pair.Value);
        }