Question

I have the following code:

var categories = catList.Select(c => new
{
      Title = c.Web.Title,
      Byline = c[Constants.FieldNames.Byline],
      Url = c[SPBuiltInFieldId.FileRef]
});

I will always have maximum three items but could be less.
The Title will always be either (simplified) america, europe or africa

What I need to do is to sort them but not alphabetically before I add databind them to a repeater

The order I need to display them in is

europe
africa
america

How can I achieve this?

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You could order the items by the title’s position that you store in a dictionary:

var position = new Dictionary<string, int>
{
    { "Europe", 0 },
    { "Africa", 1 },
    { "America", 2 },
};

var categories = catList.Select(c => new ...);
                        .OrderBy(x => position[x.Title]);