Daniel Fisher (@lennybacon)

A colleague (Daniel Wessels) just asked me how I would sort a generic Dictionary because it has no build in Sort method. A solution that uses functionality that is built in would be to (ab)use a generic list:

var dictionary =
    new Dictionary<string, int>()
        {
            {"George",42},
            {"Mike",28},
            {"Pete", 56},
            {"Sam", 33},
        };

var list = dictionary.ToList();

list.Sort((a, b) => a.Value.CompareTo(b.Value));

foreach (var keyValuePair in list)
{
    Console.WriteLine(
        string.Concat(
            keyValuePair.Key,
            " ",
            keyValuePair.Value));
}