_Items.Sort(String, Object) Method

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook

Assembly:: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll

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Sorts the collection of items by the specified property. The index for the collection is reset to 1 upon completion of this method.

public void Sort (string Property, object Descending);

Public Sub Sort (Property As String, Optional Descending As Object)

Parameters

Property: String

The name of the property by which to sort, which may be enclosed in brackets, for example, "[CompanyName]". User-defined properties that contain spaces must be enclosed in brackets. May not be a user-defined property of type keywords, and may not be a multi-valued property, such as a category. For user-defined properties, the property must exist in the UserDefinedProperties collection for Parent, which represents the Folder object that contains the items.

Descending: Object

True to sort in descending order. The default value is False (ascending).

Remarks

Sort only affects the order of items in a collection. It does not affect the order of items in an explorer view.

Sort cannot be used and will cause an error if the property parameter is one of the following properties:

	Categories	LastFirstSpaceOnly
	Children	LastFirstSpaceOnlyCompany
	Class	MemberCount
	CompanyLastFirstNoSpace	NetMeetingAlias
	CompanyLastFirstSpaceOnly	RecurrenceState
	DLName	ResponseState
	LastFirstAndSuffix	Saved
	LastFirstNoSpace	Sent
	LastFirstNoSpaceCompany

Applies to