Is there a Serializable Sorted List in .NET?

[Charles Law]

I want to sort a collection of objects, which has been read from an XML
file. I also wish to be able to access the elements of my collection by key
or index.

Is there such a collection already that I can use? I have tried inheriting
from SortedList, but the deserializer gets upset and says that there was an
error deserializing because the collection implements IDictionary.

You probably recognise this question from a while ago, but I haven't found a
satisfactory answer yet.

TIA

Charles

 

[William Ryan eMVP]

Hi Charles:

AFAIK, there's not a native one but if you look at what Les did here
http://www.knowdotnet.com/articles/serializelistview-listbox.html you can
see it's pretty easy to implement. Implementing Serializable on a class
isn't very complicated and you can use this approach or build on it/change
it with relative ease.

HTH,

Bill

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Hi Charles,

I am waiting on comments on my sample I made for you, it did work form me
completly and I asume that adding someting as the iComparer should not be
that hard.

However you did not give any comments?
(While you promished to do)

Cor

 

[Charles Law]

Hi Bill

Following Cor's reminder to me, I have revisited his earlier answer and
found a solution.

Thanks.

Charles

 

[Charles Law]

Hi Cor

You are right, and I have now responded in the other thread.

Thanks again (and my apologies).

Charles