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Sort selected text from Visual Studio context menu. I have some lines of code I wish to sort alphabetically, nothing clever. I wish to just select the lines, and then sort them. (I could copy them into Excel then sort and copy them back, but there must be a better way) This is the bit of code I am trying to time, in real life it is a lot longer. SortingColumnOverrides: new Dictionary. The first sort criterion performs a primary sort on the elements. By specifying a second sort criterion, you can sort the elements within each primary sort group. The following illustration shows the results of an alphabetical sort operation on a sequence of characters.
A sorting operation orders the elements of a sequence based on one or more attributes. The first sort criterion performs a primary sort on the elements. By specifying a second sort criterion, you can sort the elements within each primary sort group.
The following illustration shows the results of an alphabetical sort operation on a sequence of characters.
The standard query operator methods that sort data are listed in the following section.
Methods
| Method Name | Description | Visual Basic Query Expression Syntax | More Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| OrderBy | Sorts values in ascending order. | Order By | Enumerable.OrderBy Queryable.OrderBy |
| OrderByDescending | Sorts values in descending order. | Order By … Descending | Enumerable.OrderByDescending Queryable.OrderByDescending |
| ThenBy | Performs a secondary sort in ascending order. | Order By …, … | Enumerable.ThenBy Queryable.ThenBy |
| ThenByDescending | Performs a secondary sort in descending order. | Order By …, … Descending | Enumerable.ThenByDescending Queryable.ThenByDescending |
| Reverse | Reverses the order of the elements in a collection. | Not applicable. | Enumerable.Reverse Queryable.Reverse |
Query Expression Syntax Examples
Visual Studio Code Sort Text
Primary Sort Examples
Primary Ascending Sort
The following example demonstrates how to use the Order By clause in a LINQ query to sort the strings in an array by string length, in ascending order.
Primary Descending Sort
The next example demonstrates how to use the Order By Descending clause in a LINQ query to sort the strings by their first letter, in descending order.
Secondary Sort Examples
Sort Lines In Visual Studio
Secondary Ascending Sort
The following example demonstrates how to use the Order By clause in a LINQ query to perform a primary and secondary sort of the strings in an array. The strings are sorted primarily by length and secondarily by the first letter of the string, both in ascending order.
Vscode Sort Lines
Secondary Descending Sort
The next example demonstrates how to use the Order By Descending clause in a LINQ query to perform a primary sort, in ascending order, and a secondary sort, in descending order. The strings are sorted primarily by length and secondarily by the first letter of the string.
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