I have a SortedList
in my code. I fill inside it key value pairs. When I add an item to SortedList
it sorts automatically by key. But i need to sort it by value. Because the values are visible texts in a combobox. They must be alphabetically sorted. I decided to write a class and inherit from SortedList
class and override the Add
method.
But when I looked at the code of Microsoft's SortedList class, I see there is an Insert
method and it makes the sorting and unfortunately it is private so I cannot override it. Can you help me about this?
Note: I cant use ArrayList
or Dictionary
or something else. I cannot manage all code in our project. I have to return 'SortedList
' or 'MySortedList
' derived from SortedList
My first suggestion was to use a custom comparer but his didn't solve the problem. I therefore investigated SortedList implementaion more detailed and replaced my original post with the following suggestion:
Overriding the Add method and invoke the private Insert using reflection should do the trick
private MySortedList()
{
}
public override void Add(object key, object value)
{
if (key == null || value == null)
{
//throw new ArgumentNullException("key", Environment.GetResourceString("ArgumentNull_Key"));
throw new ArgumentNullException(); // build your own exception, Environment.GetResourceString is not accessible here
}
var valuesArray = new object[Values.Count];
Values.CopyTo(valuesArray , 0);
int index = Array.BinarySearch(valuesArray, 0, valuesArray.Length, value, _comparer);
if (index >= 0)
{
//throw new ArgumentException(Environment.GetResourceString("Argument_AddingDuplicate__", new object[] { this.GetKey(index), key }));
throw new ArgumentNullException(); // build your own exception, Environment.GetResourceString is not accessible here
}
MethodInfo m = typeof(SortedList).GetMethod("Insert", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
m.Invoke(this, new object[] {~index, key, value});
}