sort hashtable

[arkiboys]

Hi,
I have populated a hashtable called CacheHashTableForwards.
This is how the hashtable gets populated:

CacheHashTablesForwards.Add(IndexName, code)
...

Now I would like to sort this data which is inside the Hashtable.

Not sure if this is a good approach but I use an ArrayList to do this as follows:

CacheHashTablesForwardsArraySorted = new ArrayList(CacheHashTablesForwards.Keys)

As you can see, The sorted array does not contains the other column, i.e. code
How can I properly sort using the arraylist.
Thanks

[Edneeis]

Why would you want to sort a Hashtable? The HashTable is basically a linked list. You should be able to access objects directly via the key object instead of any kind of iteration so I'm not sure why you would ever need to sort it. Maybe a HashTable is not the right tool for the job.

Please explain further.

[jmcilhinney]

If you want your collection sorted on the keys then a SortedList is preferable to a Hashtable. In .NET 2.0 you can use a generic SortedList or SortedDictionary.