Question

I have a Dictinary(Of String, Item) and I’m trying to sort it into alphabetical order by the item name. I don’t want to use a sorted dictinary and without it, I’ve having zero luck. Linq is not my strong point…

Public Class Item
    Public Property name As String
    Public Property size As String
    Public Property price As Decimal
    Public Property timeMachine As Boolean
End Class

Answer 1

A Dictionary(Of TKey, TValue) is inherently an unordered type. There is no way to sort one. Try using SortedDictionary(Of TKey, TValue) instead.

Dim map = new SortedDictionary(Of String, Item)()