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<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"  CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
    
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

File: Default.aspx.cs


using System;
using System.Collections;

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Person scott = new Person("A", "B");
        Person bill = new Person("C", "D");
        Person srini = new Person("E", "F");

        Hashtable peopleHashtable = new Hashtable();
        peopleHashtable.Add("sh", scott);
        peopleHashtable.Add("be", bill);
        peopleHashtable.Add("ss", srini);

        SortedList peopleSortedList = new SortedList(peopleHashtable);
        foreach (Person p in peopleSortedList.Values)
        {
            Response.Write(p.FullName + "<BR/>");
        }
        Response.Write("Index of E: " + peopleSortedList.IndexOfKey("ss"));
    }
}

public class Person : IComparable
{
    string FirstName;
    string LastName;

    public Person(string first, string last)
    {
        FirstName = first;
        LastName = last;
    }

    public string FullName
    {
        get
        {
            return FirstName + " " + LastName;
        }
    }

    int IComparable.CompareTo(object obj)
    {
        Person p2 = obj as Person;
        if (p2 == null) throw new ArgumentException("Object is not a Person!");

        int lastNameResult = this.LastName.CompareTo(p2.LastName);

        if (lastNameResult == 0)
        {
            int firstNameResult = this.FirstName.CompareTo(p2.FirstName);
            return firstNameResult;
        }
        else
        {
            return lastNameResult;
        }
    }

}








7.10.SortedList
7.10.1.Using a SortedList to sort by values by key (C#)
7.10.2.Using a SortedList to sort by values by key (VB)
7.10.3.Sorted list