Quick and Concise sorting without all the extra code or bother of implementing custom sorting through interfaces, sound impossible? Here we will use a generic list full of a custom object type of our defining and we will sort it using Anonymous Methods and the generic Comparer class provided for us by the .Net framework.

Custom Class:

public class Book

{

public string ISBN { get; set; }

public string Title { get; set; }

public int Volume { get; set; }

}

On the Fly Sorting:

{

List library = new List();

//Add a bunch of books to the library collection here

//Sort the library alphabetically by Title

library.Sort( delegate (Book bookOne, Book bookTwo)

{

return Comparer.Default.Compare(bookOne.Title, bookTwo.Title);

});

//Sort the library by Volume number

library.Sort( delegate (Book bookOne, Book bookTwo)

{

return Comparer.Default.Compare(bookOne.Volume, bookTwo.Volume);

});

}