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How to orderby items in a silverlight combo box

I have a generic list which contains an object T.

This same list is used to bind multiple combo boxes on a silverlight page.

After I bind the combobox to this List source, I would like to order the Items in the Combobox accordingly.

Please not that I do not want to sort or order the List<T>, because this is used to bind multiple combo boxes

I would like to try something like this for my comboboxes
cbDesc.Items.OrderBy(???);

Here is my code
List<T> genericList = getData();

cbDesc.ItemsSource = genericList
cbDesc.DisplayMemberPath ="Name"
cbDesc.SelectedValuePath = "Name"
cbDesc.Items.OrderBy(???);

cbRegion.ItemsSource = genericList
cbRegion.DisplayMemberPath ="Region"
cbRegion.SelectedValuePath = "Region"

cbProduct.ItemsSource = genericList
cbProduct.DisplayMemberPath ="Product"
cbProduct.SelectedValuePath = "Product"

kaufmed

The OrderBy is not "in-place", so you can call it against the list without affecting the order of the elements. You should be able to do:

cbDesc.ItemsSource = cbDesc.Items.OrderBy(item => item.Name);

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countrymeister

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I do not see the avaialble properties when I do
cbDesc.ItemsSource = cbDesc.Items.OrderBy(item => item.Name);

All I see when I type item. is Equals, GetType, ToString(), GetHasCode.
I do not see any of the properties such as Name, Region, Product

My xaml for the combobox is

<ComboBox Height="20" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="155,19,0,0" Name="cbDesc" VerticalAlignment="Top" MinWidth="349" SelectionChanged="cbDesc_SelectionChanged" MaxDropDownHeight="200" />

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