Question

I have a List<Vehicles> which contains 4 items:

My Vehicles object has 2 properties: VehId, VehName

The 4 items in my list are:

1) VehId : "LOR", VehName : "Lorry"

2) VehId : "CAR", VehName : "Car"

3) VehId : "BOA", VehName : "Boat"

4) VehId : "PLN", VehName : "Plane"

What I’d like to do is put Car vehicle to the top of the list. How would I do this? By using .OrderBy() or .Sort()?

Answer 1

One way is using Enumerable.OrderBy:

var ordered = vehicles
        .OrderByDescending(v => v.VehId == "CAR")
        .ThenBy(v => v.VehName);

here’s a demo: http://ideone.com/QAgzd