iorderedenumerable – Tarik Billa

When to return IOrderedEnumerable?

December 27, 2023 by Tarik

I don’t think it would be a good idea: Should IOrderedEnumerable be used as a return type purely for semantic value? For example, when consuming a model in the presentation layer, how can we know whether the collection requires ordering or is already ordered? What is the point in knowing that a sequence is ordered … Read more

Is it possible to turn an IEnumerable into an IOrderedEnumerable without using OrderBy?

August 31, 2023 by Tarik

All you need to do for the default case is: queryRes = values.OrderBy(a => 1); This will effectively be a noop sort. Because the OrderBy performs a stable sort the original order will be maintained in the event that the selected objects are equal. Note that since this is an IQueryable and not an IEnumerable … Read more