Did you know that the .NET Framework has no built-in functionality to sort custom type collections? This article provides you with an easy way to use T-SQL-like sort expressions to sort your custom type collections and explains how this great utility works under the hood.
by J. Ambrose Little
February 9, 2005
ave you ever wanted to use a strongly-typed collection to bind your data presentation controls to, only to find that you have very limited sorting capabilities, if any at all?
If you are trying to stick to good object-oriented design and shrink the amount of data that you keep in memory, transfer from your data source, or serialize to clients, you likely have run into this situation because you are using strongly-typed collections of your domain objects. So what do you do if you need to sort those collections for presentation or faster searching?
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ave you ever wanted to use a strongly-typed collection to bind your data presentation controls to, only to find that you have very limited sorting capabilities, if any at all?
