Question

I have a List<ListViewItem> and I’ve used it in a ListView in VirtualMode
There are 5000 items in the list and I’m gonna sort it with LINQ and OrderBy whenever a Column of the ListView is clicked , so I have written below code :

List<ListViewItem> ListOfItems = new List<ListViewItem>();
ListViewColumnSorter lvwColumnSorter;

void listView1_ColumnClick(object sender, ColumnClickEventArgs e)
{
    try
    {
        // Determine if clicked column is already the column that is being sorted.
        if (e.Column == lvwColumnSorter.SortColumn)
        {
            // Reverse the current sort direction for this column.
            if (lvwColumnSorter.Order == SortOrder.Ascending)
            {
                lvwColumnSorter.Order = SortOrder.Descending;
            }
            else
            {
                lvwColumnSorter.Order = SortOrder.Ascending;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            // Set the column number that is to be sorted; default to ascending.
            lvwColumnSorter.SortColumn = e.Column;
            lvwColumnSorter.Order = SortOrder.Ascending;
        }

        if (lvwColumnSorter.Order == SortOrder.Descending)
            this.ListOfItems.OrderByDescending(a => a, new CompareListItemsClass(e.Column, lvwColumnSorter.Order));
        else
            this.ListOfItems.OrderBy(a => a, new CompareListItemsClass(e.Column, lvwColumnSorter.Order));

        this.listView1.VirtualListSize = ListOfItems.Count;
        this.listView1.Refresh();
    }
    catch { }
}

public class CompareListItemsClass : IComparer<ListViewItem>
{
    private CaseInsensitiveComparer ObjectCompare = new CaseInsensitiveComparer();
    private SortOrder OrderOfSort;
    private int ColumnToSort;

    public CompareListItemsClass(int columnIndex, SortOrder sortOrder)
    {
        ColumnToSort = columnIndex;
        OrderOfSort = sortOrder;
    }

    public int Compare(ListViewItem listviewX, ListViewItem listviewY)
    {
        // Compare the two items
        try
        {
            compareResult = ObjectCompare.Compare(
                int.Parse(listviewX.SubItems[ColumnToSort].Text),
                int.Parse(listviewY.SubItems[ColumnToSort].Text));
        }
        catch
        {
            compareResult = ObjectCompare.Compare(listviewX.SubItems[ColumnToSort].Text,
                listviewY.SubItems[ColumnToSort].Text);
        }


        // Calculate correct return value based on object comparison
        if (OrderOfSort == SortOrder.Ascending)
        {
            // Ascending sort is selected, return normal result of compare operation
            return compareResult;
        }
        else if (OrderOfSort == SortOrder.Descending)
        {
            // Descending sort is selected, return negative result of compare operation
            return (-compareResult);
        }
        else
        {
            // Return '0' to indicate they are equal
            return 0;
        }
    }

    int IComparer<ListViewItem>.Compare(ListViewItem x, ListViewItem y)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

but nothing happen ! I expect at least an exception was throw !
Could you please guide me ?
Thanks.

Answer 1

LINQ methods doesn’t affect the collection, they return a new collection. You can use the ToList method to turn the result into a list and assign it back to the list variable:

this.ListOfItems = this.ListOfItems.OrderBy(a => a, new CompareListItemsClass(e.Column, lvwColumnSorter.Order)).ToList();