Recently I had to add ordering support to an application using the column names as strings, but the LINQ API accepts only Lambda expressions.
And to worsen my case, I needed it to work with IEnumerable, plus nested properties, so I decided to write this extension to fulfill these needs.
Normally you’d write:
list.OrderBy(p => p.Name); list.OrderBy(p => p.Member.SubMember).ThenBy(p => p.AnotherMember);
Now, you can write:
list.OrderBy("Name");
list.OrderBy("Member.SubMember").ThenBy("AnotherMember");
It ended up being more friendly, and I hope it makes your life easier as well.
