Dynamically Sorting with LINQ

Question

I have a collection of CLR objects. The class definition for the object has three properties: FirstName, LastName, BirthDate.

I have a string that reflects the name

Answer 1

You can actually use your original line of code

var results = myCollection.OrderBy(sortProperty);

simply by using the System.Linq.Dynamic library.

If you get a compiler error (something like cannot convert from or does not contain a definition...) you may have to do it like this:

var results = myCollection.AsQueryable().OrderBy(sortProperty);

No need for any expression trees or data binding.