how to sort a listbox

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How can I sort the listbox?

This is what I have found in the msdn, but it seems that I have to add a refrence to ?.Net

listBox2.Items.SortDescriptions.Add(new SortDescription(
                "Content", ListSortDirection.Descending));

Plese help.

Posted 8-Dec-10 10:09am

Khalid Sabtan

Updated 8-Dec-10 10:44am

JF2015

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Solution 1

What about ListBox.Sorted[^]?

Posted 8-Dec-10 10:44am

Jimmanuel

Solution 2

You can either set the listbox property to true or you can get all the items of the listbox to an arraylist. With a foreach loop add them to the arraylist. Then sort the array. and add them sorted to the listbox again.

Posted 8-Dec-10 11:36am

Orcun Iyigun

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DaveyM69 · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-08T15:08:00

Solution 3

IMO this is the wrong approach, the ListBox should be used for displaying data only. If the data should be shown sorted it should be sorted first then added to the control.

Add your items to a collection (List<T> maybe) and sort that however you wish then add the items to the ListBox.

Posted 8-Dec-10 15:08pm

DaveyM69