Question

Say I have the code below:

dynamic myData = GetMyData();
foreach(dynamic d in myData.data)
{
   Console.WriteLine(d.name);
}

How could I writeout all of the names in alphabetical order? If I were using something like List<MyClass> i would just use myData.OrderBy(t => t.name), but this does not seem to work when I’m using a dynamic type.

Any suggestions to how I can order these values?

Answer 1

Enumerable.OrderBy(myData, (Func<dynamic, dynamic>)(t => t.name));

That should return the same as myData.OrderBy(t => t.name) would normally.

Since OrderBy is an extension method, it won’t work on dynamic types. See this answer.