Tag Archives: c#

Custom sorting order in LINQ (ORDER BY WEIGHTING)

By Daniel Skinner | Published: March 18, 2009

I have developed a C# LINQ extension method to allow very flexible ordering by assigning weightings to the sort keys of the elements to be ordered. I was inspired by the functionality offered by SQL Server’s ORDER BY CASE WHEN: The extension method I have created lets you pass a lambda function which allows the [...]

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String.Capitalize in C# (PHP’s ucwords in C#)

By Daniel Skinner | Published: February 25, 2009

I have been playing around with C# recently and found the need for functionality similar to that provided by PHP’s ucwords() function. I dont think this exists in C# as standard so here is a simple extension method to achieve ucwords in C# using a little bit of LINQ (the extremely useful Aggregate extension method) [...]

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