Sorting a DropDownList? - C#, ASP.NET

Question

I\'m curious as to the best route (more looking towards simplicity, not speed or efficiency) to sort a DropDownList in C#/ASP.NET - I\'ve looked at a few recommendations b

Answer 1

I agree with the folks in sorting your data in the model before populating them to the DropDownList, so if you are populating this from a DB, it is a good thing to get them sorted already there using a simple order by clause, it will save you some cycles in the web server, and I am sure the DB will do it so much faster. If you are populating this from another data source for example, XML file, using LINQ will be a good idea, or even any variation of Array.Sort will be good.