Ordering IEnumberable in VB.Net
I have a query using linq to sql:
Dim SOs As IEnumerable(Of String) = (From i In dc.ShopOrders
Order By i.SO_Number
Select i.SO_Number).Distinct()
ShopOrders being a table in my database.
the order by clause does not seem to be working.
What am I doing wrong?
Also, I tried to do an IEnumerable.OrderBy after the fact, something like
SOs = SOs.orderby( ...
but couldn't get it to work. How would I do that?
Thanks.
Dim SOs As IEnumerable(Of String) = (From i In dc.ShopOrders
Order By i.SO_Number
Select i.SO_Number).Distinct()
ShopOrders being a table in my database.
the order by clause does not seem to be working.
What am I doing wrong?
Also, I tried to do an IEnumerable.OrderBy after the fact, something like
SOs = SOs.orderby( ...
but couldn't get it to work. How would I do that?
Thanks.
Nasir Razzaq
Are you sure SO_Number is not string?
what does your values look like?
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Hello Fernando Soto -- Yes, I had run across that too. The Disctinct operator is what was destroying it. Your orderby worked, though I don't understand what it is doing. Thanks for the help!
Hi g_johnson;
This Linq query Iterate through all the ShopOrders and selects the single column SO_Number and returns it as a collection of String.
(From i In dc.ShopOrders
Select i.SO_Number)
The Distinct method then Iterates through the collection of strings and removes all duplicates.
.Distinct()
And finally once all duplicates have been removed we can sort the results. The OrderBy method here is taking a Lambda expression and ordering it by the only value comming in which is the string. All this is saying is that I have defined a Lambda expression and that function will be sending a single variable to the function which will be called osn but can be called anything you want. This variable will take on the input which is a collection of strings and pass it on to the function. In this case the function is not doing much except telling OrderBy to sort this value with the others that follow.
.OrderBy(Function(osn) osn)
Hope that helps.
This Linq query Iterate through all the ShopOrders and selects the single column SO_Number and returns it as a collection of String.
(From i In dc.ShopOrders
Select i.SO_Number)
The Distinct method then Iterates through the collection of strings and removes all duplicates.
.Distinct()
And finally once all duplicates have been removed we can sort the results. The OrderBy method here is taking a Lambda expression and ordering it by the only value comming in which is the string. All this is saying is that I have defined a Lambda expression and that function will be sending a single variable to the function which will be called osn but can be called anything you want. This variable will take on the input which is a collection of strings and pass it on to the function. In this case the function is not doing much except telling OrderBy to sort this value with the others that follow.
.OrderBy(Function(osn) osn)
Hope that helps.
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Yeah -- I think I understand now. I'm familiar with lambda expressions (somewhat) from c#.
Thanks for the clarification.
Thanks for the clarification.
Not a problem, glad to help.