Question

How do I do sorting when generating anonymous types in linq to sql?

Ex:

from e in linq0 order by User descending /* ??? */ select new {    Id = e.Id,    CommentText = e.CommentText,    UserId = e.UserId,    User = (e.User.FirstName + ' ' + e.User.LastName).Trim()),    Date = string.Format('{0:d}', e.Date) } 

Answer 1

If you’re using LINQ to Objects, I’d do this:

var query = from e in linq0             select new             {                 Id = e.Id,                 CommentText = e.CommentText,                 UserId = e.UserId,                 User = (e.User.FirstName + ' ' + e.User.LastName).Trim()),                 Date = e.Date.ToString('d')             } into anon             orderby anon.User descending             select anon; 

That way the string concatenation only has to be done once.

I don’t know what that would do in LINQ to SQL though…