Sorting a collection by multiple fields

Question

I need to sort a collection. For example, I have

Austin 12/3/2012   
Sam 100 12/3/2012   
Sam 200 14/3/2012   
Bubly 300 12/3/2012   
Bubly 300 15/3/2012  
         


        

Answer 1

I would create a class to hold your information

public class NameDate
{
    private string name;
    private DateTime date;
    public string Name
    {
        get { return name; }
        set { name = value; }
    }
    public DateTime Date
    {
        get { return date; }
        set { date = value; }
    }
}

I would then populate a List to hold your items. When this is done, to sort the items you can use LINQ

List someList = new List();
someList = GetNameDateList();
var orderedByNameList = someList.OrderBy(e => e.Name);
var orderedByDateTimeList = someList.OrderBy(e => e.Date);

I hope this helps.