DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIST VS DICTIONARY

Hi ALL ,


             IF I have  Retrieve   million records , i Choose   ONLY  ILIST  That is LIST  Objects .

            Why Because it  Represents   a    collection of  objects that can be accessed by in INDEX .
And also Built in quick sort algorithm for  fast data sorting  and  retrieval


  
  
LIST:

          Represent a strongly typed list of objects  that can be accessed by index .Methods are sort,search and manipulate .

DICTIONARY :

Represent  a collection of key and value pairs .
                                      
Both are GENERICS COLLECTIONS

IDictionary is for key->value maps . ICollection is for sets of similar objects.

ICOLLECTION is an interface for collection of similar objects .


List is simply a set of items
and Dictionary is a set of key-value pairs.

List persist order of the items, Dictionary does not

List allow fast access by index

List persist order of the items, Dictionary does not

List allow fast access by index

List support built in QuickSort algorithm for fast data sorting.