How to Implement a Serializable Sorted List

[Charles Law]

I have been using the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Collection as the basis of a
generic list class because it is the only list class that allows items to be
added with and without a key and hence to be retrieved by both key and index
(correct me if I'm wrong).

When I wanted to serialize the list to XML it was not too tricky to achieve
using the XMLSerializer class. However, I now want to be able to sort the
list.

Can anyone suggest how to do this? I have tried replacing the base list with
SortedList, but I can't serialize it with XMLSerializer.

TIA

Charles

 

[Scott]

Here's a sort routine for the Collection class...

http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=5539

 

[Charles Law]

Hi Scott

Thanks for the link. It looks like just the thing?

Cheers.

Charles