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

Required namespace : using System.Linq;

Dictionary counts = new Dictionary();
counts.Add("one", 1);
counts.Add("four", 4);
counts.Add("two", 2);
counts.Add("three", 3);

Order by desc :

foreach (KeyValuePair kvp in counts.OrderByDescending(key => key.Value))
{
// some processing logic for each item if you want.
}

Order by Asc :

foreach (KeyValuePair kvp in counts.OrderBy(key => key.Value))
{
// some processing logic for each item if you want.
}