Sorting an IList in C#

Question

So I came across an interesting problem today. We have a WCF web service that returns an IList. Not really a big deal until I wanted to sort it.

Turns out the IList

Answer 1

Here's an example using the stronger typing. Not sure if it's necessarily the best way though.

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    IList list = new List() { 1, 3, 2, 5, 4, 6, 9, 8, 7 };
    List stronglyTypedList = new List(Cast(list));
    stronglyTypedList.Sort();
}

private static IEnumerable Cast(IEnumerable list)
{
    foreach (T item in list)
    {
        yield return item;
    }
}

The Cast function is just a reimplementation of the extension method that comes with 3.5 written as a normal static method. It is quite ugly and verbose unfortunately.