How to return dictionary with minimum value at element(0)

Question

In the below example how to return row have minimum value at element(0) of dictionary? Dictionary > dictSource2 = new Dictionary > { { 1 new List { 5 Programmers }} { 2 new List { 12 Testers }} { 3 new List { 2 Designers }} }; I want to return the following data from above dictionary- 2 Designers I have written below: string sminValue= dictSource.Min(pair => pair.Value.ElementAt(0)) But it returns the incorrect results. Note my solution woks fine when value at ElementAt(0) has zero records. Can anyone guide here?

Sakthikumar Thanavel · Answer

please find the code here Dictionary int  List string >> dictSource2 = new Dictionary int  List string >> { { 1 new List string > { 5  Programmers }} { 2 new List string > { 12  Testers }} { 3 new List string > { 2  Designers }} }; var list = dictSource2.Values.Where(x => ! string .IsNullOrEmpty(x[0])).OrderBy(x => Convert .ToInt32(x[0])).First(); if (list != null ) { dictSource2.Add(0 list); }

Jaipal Reddy · Answer

the following works exactly what you expect - Dictionary dictSource2 = new Dictionary (); dictSource2.Add(Programmers 5); dictSource2.Add(Testers 12); dictSource2.Add(Designers 2); var min = dictSource2.Aggregate((l r) => l.Value Console.WriteLine(min);

Jaipal Reddy · Answer

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23734686/c-sharp-dictionary-get-the-key-of-the-min-value

Jaipal Reddy · Answer

min(d.items() key=lambda x: x[1])[0]