Comments on: Sorting a generic list on arbitrary property (C#) http://blog.codewrench.net/2009/04/14/sorting-a-generic-list-on-arbitrary-property/ My thoughs on stuff Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:52:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Pål http://blog.codewrench.net/2009/04/14/sorting-a-generic-list-on-arbitrary-property/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Pål Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:24:55 +0000 http://blog.paks.no/?p=259#comment-84 Good question. You'll have to test that and let us know :) Good question. You’ll have to test that and let us know :)

]]> By: Ron Rudman http://blog.codewrench.net/2009/04/14/sorting-a-generic-list-on-arbitrary-property/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Ron Rudman Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:55:25 +0000 http://blog.paks.no/?p=259#comment-83 This works well for properties that are ints, dates, etc. But what about for a string property where the value could contain special characters? In particular, I'm pretty sure values like "coop" and "co-op" would be sorted together by the default CompareTo for strings in this code. Short of doing some kind of ugly if-then-else in the delegate, how can this be made to use the ordinal type of string compare? This works well for properties that are ints, dates, etc. But what about for a string property where the value could contain special characters? In particular, I’m pretty sure values like “coop” and “co-op” would be sorted together by the default CompareTo for strings in this code. Short of doing some kind of ugly if-then-else in the delegate, how can this be made to use the ordinal type of string compare?

]]> By: César F. Qüeb Montejo http://blog.codewrench.net/2009/04/14/sorting-a-generic-list-on-arbitrary-property/comment-page-1/#comment-82 César F. Qüeb Montejo Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:26:11 +0000 http://blog.paks.no/?p=259#comment-82 Awesome code Pal :) !!! , very, very useful.. just searching for some like this.. thank you a lot!!! Regards Awesome code Pal :) !!! , very, very useful.. just searching for some like this.. thank you a lot!!!

Regards

]]> By: Pål http://blog.codewrench.net/2009/04/14/sorting-a-generic-list-on-arbitrary-property/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Pål Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:29:24 +0000 http://blog.paks.no/?p=259#comment-81 Yes, Linq is really handy and I use it more and more in different places I had not thought of at first. Yes, Linq is really handy and I use it more and more in different places I had not thought of at first.

]]> By: Gopinath Varadharajan http://blog.codewrench.net/2009/04/14/sorting-a-generic-list-on-arbitrary-property/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Gopinath Varadharajan Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:27:10 +0000 http://blog.paks.no/?p=259#comment-80 Hi Pal, You are the best! was searching for generic list sort in a simple way, and no one mentioned about Linq ! Thanks again, it save me a big chunk of code and Thanks to Linq's Simplicity... Thanks, Gopi Hi Pal,

You are the best! was searching for generic list sort in a simple way, and no one mentioned about Linq !

Thanks again, it save me a big chunk of code and Thanks to Linq’s Simplicity…

Thanks,

Gopi

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