Hi all,
I have a gridview, whose datasource is a strongly typed object (container) which is a generic list of entity objects.
Now i need to achieve sorting on this gridview cloumns...
would anyone send me the code to implement Icomparable interface..

Thanks,
--Monika

Hi there,

Take a look here: http://imar.spaanjaars.com/QuickDocId.aspx?quickdoc=428

For a detailed explanation of what it is sorting, you may want to check out the series this article belongs to: http://imar.spaanjaars.com/QuickDocId.aspx?quickdoc=416

Cheers,

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
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Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004

Hi Imar,
The article looks very good.
I implemented it exactly in my code but I am getting a complier error for the statement.

mylist.Sort(new MyComparer(sortExpression));

Error 1 The best overloaded method match for 'System.Collections.Generic.List<EFS.Core.CoreEnti ty>.Sort(System.Collections.Generic.IComparer<EFS. Core.CoreEntity>)' has some invalid arguments

Error 2 Argument '1': cannot convert from 'MyComparer' to 'System.Collections.Generic.IComparer<EFS.Core.Cor eEntity>'

Where CoreEntity is the parent class of MyEntity.

The comparer class looks like this.
public class MyComparer:CoreEntity,IComparer<MyEntity>
{
  public MyComparer(string sortExpression)
    {
      //some code
    }

  public int Compare(MyEntity a, MyEntity b)
    {
      //some code
    }
}

So the statement :
mylist.Sort(new MyComparer(sortExpression));
throws complier error.

(mylist is a generic List of MyEntity objects)


pls let me know if I am doing something wrong or missing anything.

Thanks,
--Monika

Did you notice that the ContactPersonComparer class has been implemented as a private nested class within the ContactPersonManager class?

Also, in my case, ContactPersonManager is a Manager class that manages ContactPerson objects not included in the code download for the Sorting article.

Maybe that gives you a clue?

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
http://Imar.Spaanjaars.Com
Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004

yes..i read your code closely ...it is very similair to my requirement and I m doing exactly what you have done.!

Then what is that I am missing .? I still cant get to fix that error.

Thanks,
--Monika.

Well, not entirely. Your comparer class inherits from your own entity base class:

public class MyComparer:CoreEntity,IComparer<MyEntity>

Mine doesn't; it simply implements IComparer<MyEntity>

Not sure what's going on though. Hard to tell with code on simple grey text area without color coding, IntelliSense, a debugger and fresh coffee to keep me awake.....

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
http://Imar.Spaanjaars.Com
Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004

Ok...Would your code be still the same and work if your ContactPerson class inherits a parent class say ContactPerson :parentPerson
and also the ContactPersonManger class inherits its own parent class
ContactPersonManger:parentManager

Thats the only difference between ur code and my code..

I have changed my comparer to be like yours.

private class MyComparer:IComparer<MyEntity>

So no idea whats going wrong why that error is coming..!

hey I got it working..
Thank you for your code...

The fix to my error was:

Instead of having
public class MyComparer:IComparer<MyEntity>

I had to do:
public class MyComparer:IComparer<MyParentEntity>

Since MyEntity is child of MyParentEntity.

and in the Compare method I just had to typecast it to Myentity type.

So instead of :
Compare(MyEntity x, MyEntity y) it had to be

Compare(MyParentEntity x, MyParentEntity y)
{

 MyEntity entityX = MyEntity(x);
 MyEntity entityY = MyEntity(y);
}


And it works great now...

Thanks Imar...u have alwayz been a great help!

Regards,
--Monika

Great; glad you got it working.

Have fun,

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
http://Imar.Spaanjaars.Com
Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004

Hi,
I also wanted to have a up/down arrow on my sortable columns to show the users direction of sorting..!
is it possible to have something like that?

Also, while Paging/sorting...i need to do a gridview.datasource ans gridview.databind in the event handlers..!
So , i either need to load the whole data again or need to have a way to storing it..
Right now I m storing it in Session during first load and using it the the paging/sorting event handlers..
any better way of doing this?