Sunday, June 17, 2007

Sort Generic List of T

by ssmith via Steve Smith's Blog on 6/17/2007 5:12:00 AM

Plenty of others have written about this so I'll keep it brief.  I needed to sort some objects based on a string property.  Some quick searching led me to this post which got me close to what I wanted.

My final code was this:

myThings.Sort(delegate(Thing x, Thing y) { return String.Compare(x.Name,y.Name); }); 

myThings is a List<Thing> collection.  String.Compare done in this fashion will sort them alphabetically - reverse its parameters to sort in reverse.