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I’m a fool and had a typo in my controller, it’s all good now. (it’s been a very long week)

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Ok, this is something i’m not sure of. I’m thinking about implementing what i want in a different way but I want to find out if there’s a way to do this.

I have an IQueryable object and in my table, i have a column of type bool and wish to order it by true/false in a table.

Here’s something along the lines of what I’ve tried:

mQueryableObject.OrderBy(model => model.myBoolean);

this doesn’t give me the expected result, as I would half expect.

So is there any way to order an IQueryable object (LINQ) by boolean value (true/false).

I’d really appreciate some insight.

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this doesn’t give me the expected result, as I would half expect.

Well without knowing what you expect, it’s hard to know what’s wrong here. It’s also not clear whether you’ve really got that OrderBy call as a statement by itself. If so, that’s the problem – LINQ operators don’t mutate an existing query; they return a new query. For example, this may be all you need:

mQueryableObject = mQueryableObject.OrderBy(model => model.myBoolean);

This will sort false before true, by the way. If you want it the other way round, just use:

mQueryableObject = mQueryableObject.OrderBy(model => !model.myBoolean);