SortDescription Structure
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Defines the direction and the property name that will be used as the criteria for sorting a collection.
Assembly: System.Windows (in System.Windows.dll)
The SortDescription type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | Direction | Gets or sets a value that indicates whether to sort in ascending or descending order. |
| IsSealed | Gets a value that indicates whether this structure is in an immutable state. |
| PropertyName | Gets or sets the property name being used as the sorting criteria. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | Equals | Compares the specified instance and the current instance of SortDescription for value equality. (Overrides ValueType::Equals(Object).) |
 | Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetHashCode | Returns the hash code for the current instance. (Overrides ValueType::GetHashCode().) |
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
| MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| ToString | Returns the fully qualified type name of this instance. (Inherited from ValueType.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
  | Equality | Compares two SortDescription instances for value equality. |
| Inequality | Compares two SortDescription instances for value inequality. |
This type is used by the SortDescriptions property of the ICollectionView interface.
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