Question

I’m trying to sort a dictionary by value with LINQ but I can’t figure how the ToDictionary() method works.

All the examples I can find are in c#.

here’s my code

Dim f As Dictionary(Of String, String) =  (From value In projectDescriptions.Values
                                           Order By value Ascending
                                           Select value).ToDictionary(???)

UPDATE

Finally, I just realized that was stupid. Sorry

I did a list (of keyValuePair(of string,string))

And to sort my list, I do

mylist.OrderBy(Function(x) x.Value).ToList()

hope it will help someone

Answer 1

You said you didn’t find an example of this, but check MSDN here. Something like the following should work in VB.

'not sure what the key is, but use whichever property you'd like
Dim f As Dictionary(Of String, String) =  
      (From value In projectDescriptions.Values
      Order By value Ascending
      Select value).ToDictionary(Function(p) p.Key)

But if you store a sorted enumerator in a dictionary again, it becomes unsorted, that’s a property of a dictionary or map in general and is precisely why dictionaries are so fast and popular. If you need it sorted, perhaps you want to use SortedDictionary instead?