In the case of C# it is/was more a matter of picking the -correct- Dictionary.
'OrderedDictionary' has been around since Net 2.0 (2005 or so,) as has 'SortedDictionary<TKey, TValue>'
But for some ungodly reason, there is no 'OrderedDictionary<TKey,TValue>' included in the framework that you can use. All you get normally is the non-generic one (where you have to type-check everything...) There are internal implementations used by the framework, but you'd have to do some hacky things to even get it to work.
However, in my 12 years of C# programming, I've only run into the need for this _once_, and it was to assist interfacing with a VB6 monstrosity.
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In the case of C# it is/was more a matter of picking the -correct- Dictionary.
'OrderedDictionary' has been around since Net 2.0 (2005 or so,) as has 'SortedDictionary<TKey, TValue>'
But for some ungodly reason, there is no 'OrderedDictionary<TKey,TValue>' included in the framework that you can use. All you get normally is the non-generic one (where you have to type-check everything...) There are internal implementations used by the framework, but you'd have to do some hacky things to even get it to work.
However, in my 12 years of C# programming, I've only run into the need for this _once_, and it was to assist interfacing with a VB6 monstrosity.