The SortedDictionary(Of TKey, TValue)
Collection
The System.Collections.Generic.SortedDictionary(Of TKey, TValue)
works exactly like the Dictionary
collection except that items are automatically sorted each time you perform a modification. We can rewrite the code shown in the section about the Dictionary(Of TKey, TValue)
collection as follows:
This code will produce the following result:
Notice how the result has a different order than the one we added items to the collection with. In fact, items are sorted alphabetically. This collection performs ...
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