Hi folks,

I'm having a problem here I can't solve without your expertise

I have made a Sort-routine which sorts users. This is it's code:

EntityComparer<UserEntity> comparerToUse = new EntityComparer<UserEntity>((Comparison<UserEntity>)delegate(UserEntity x, UserEntity y)
{
    UserEntity[] users = new UserEntity[] { x, y };
    string[] userFullNames = new string[2];

    for (int i = 0; i < users.Length; i++)
    {
        userFullNames[i] = this.GetFullName(users[i]);
    }
    
    return String.Compare(userFullNames[0], userFullNames[1], true);
});

this.users.Sort("User", this.sortDirection, comparerToUse);

So in this case I would like to sort the existing collection containing Users with properties from that User. The problem is that whatever I try, I never reach the code in the delegate (when debugging) which is with the custom comparer.

Does anyone know what might be wrong.

The comparer to use for sorting is for the values which are present for the field/property to sort on, not on entities. All values in the entities for the sortfield/property are stored in an arraylist and that list's quicksort algo is used while passing the comparer specified.

So it's limited at the moment to value comparing, not entity comparing. I know the sort method could give you the idea to specify a comparer for the entity.