Question

I am trying to sort different field. i.e. blogID, date, author
I found order by method but dont know how to pass the value in the method… help please

public List<blog> BlogFetch(string key)
{
    List<blog> blogRes = new List<blog>();

    using (var be = new BlogEntities())
    {
        blog res = new blog();

        foreach (var User in be.blogs.OrderBy(<what goes here?>))
        {
            res = User;
            blogRes.Add(res);
        }
    }
    return blogRes;
}

Answer 1

be.blogs.OrderBy(b => b.NameOfPropertyOnBlogClass)

It’s a Lambda expression which is used heavily in LINQ. Here’s a good “cheatsheet” on getting started with LINQ syntax.

As an aside if you want to load a List of items when using EF you can just call ToList().