How the Dictionary is internally maintained?

Question

When i say

Dictionary

is it equivalent to two different arrays such as:

int[] keys =new int[] { 1, 2, 3          


        

Answer 1

No, it's a Hash Table. Well it's not exactly a hash table, but it's really closely related.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table.

http://www.kirupa.com/net/dictionary_hashtable.htm