Question

I have a list class that has a Title (string) Rank (int) and a couple of other string elements. I’d like to be able to sort the list so that I can sort the whole bit by the rank.

For instance:

 Title              Rank              Bla1        Bla2
 ---------------------------------------------------------
 Whatever            0                Bla         Blabety Bla
 Something Else      4                Bla2        Double Bla
 Howdy               1                Bla3        asdf
 Last                2                Bla4        fdsa

Becomes:

 Title              Rank              Bla1        Bla2
 ----------------------------------------------------------
 Something Else      4                Bla2        Double Bla  
 Last                2                Bla4        fdsa      
 Howdy               1                Bla3        asdf
 Whatever            0                Bla         Blabety Bla

Here’s the class declaration:

public class Results
{
    public string title { get; set; }
    public int rank { get; set; }
    public string term { get; set; }
    public string studentComment { get; set; }
}

And the list declaration:

public List<Results> studentList = new List<Results>();

How would I take studentList and sort it by rank to get the results shown above?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Lambda Expressions to the rescue!

studentList.OrderByDescending(p => p.rank).ToList();