Sort a Dictionary by Value in C#

The following code example creates a dictionary and then uses the OrderBy method to sort the items. The following code snippet sorts a Dictionary by values.

public void SortDictionary()  
{   
    // Create a dictionary with string key and Int16 value pair  
    Dictionary<string, Int16> AuthorList = new Dictionary<string, Int16>();  
    AuthorList.Add("Mahesh Chand", 35);  
    AuthorList.Add("Mike Gold", 25);  
    AuthorList.Add("Praveen Kumar", 29);  
    AuthorList.Add("Raj Beniwal", 21);  
    AuthorList.Add("Dinesh Beniwal", 84);    
    // Sorted by Value    
    Console.WriteLine("Sorted by Value");  
    Console.WriteLine("=============");  
    foreach (KeyValuePair<string, Int16> author in AuthorList.OrderBy(key => key.Value))  
    {  
        Console.WriteLine("Key: {0}, Value: {1}", author.Key, author.Value);  
    }  
}

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