Question

I this is a part of my code in C#:

 SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader();
 ArrayList readertmp = new ArrayList();
 while (reader.Read())
  {
      readertmp.Add(reader);
  }

reader contains several columns such as “name”, “age” and …
now I want to sort “readertmp” by one of the columns for example “name”.
anynody help me?

Answer 1

if you want to try a datatable you can do

SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader();
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
dt.Load(reader);

this fills the table with your data. you can then use a dataview to sort the data.

DataView dataView = new DataView(dt);
dataView.Sort = " Name DESC";

also, as others have suggested you can just sort in your sql statement