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Sorting is one of the most basic and essential algorithm form the early days of computation, In this article we will be discussing about sorting a list of items in a web application, this is one of the common feature given to the administrators, for example sorting the products in an e-commerce application, FAQ list etc etc, I am using the feature list as an example, typically this will be like features of a product which a web admin would like to sort.

Code:

Lets start by opening an ASP.net MVC application.

TDD:

ASP.net MVC gives a lot of emphasis on test driven development and its always a good practice to write a test before implementing any solution which will serve as a guideline for us at the time of implementing the functionality so lets add a test which will ensure that all the items are sorted according to their position after the list is sorted.

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I was trying to implement a collapsible menu using jQuery following John Resig’s  online tutorial. it was great, such a nice effect with little code, I found one problem with the effect though, when I tried to click on the menu item which was already open it animated the list items again, I searched for any fixes for this but was not able to fin one so I thought let me try to fix this, here is the JavaScript fix for that More...

Anonymous Types are inline class definition which is created at compile time, we use the same syntax of Object Initializer to declare a Anonymous Types but with out the class name

var customer = new {Name = "Paolo Accorti", Country = "Italy"};

In my previous post about Local Type Inference we discussed about the var keyword and how it provides us a relaxed way of declaring variable but in the case of Anonymous Types the usage of the var keyword is a must to assign it to a variable. Anonymous Types is a very handy tool when when we handle data using LINQ More...