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Sort List of SelectListItem with LINQ

I'm trying to sort a List of SelectListItem with LINQ with no success.

 For Each item In query
            brandCategoryList.Add(New SelectListItem With {
                            .Text = FriendlyCategory(item),
                            .Value = item
                          })
        Next
        brandCategoryList.OrderBy(Function(m) m.Text)

What am I doing wrong? The results are returned in original order as if the OrderBy function was not called. Thanks in advance!

Solution

  • You can edit the list in place with Sort()

    brandCategoryList.Sort(Function(a, b) a.Text < b.Text)