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weekending in east texas

and ive had just about enough of the internets and asp.net and sharepoint and seo and all that for a few days.

so thank you for keeping up with me here and have a very happy Easter.  see you next week.

by the way, i wrote a little class yesterday.  might be useful if you want to sort or order the SPListItems in a "Links" List in sharepoint 2003. 

yes that's a float - a float not an int!  =)

    #region SPListItemOrderer : IComparer
    public class SPListItemOrderer : IComparer
    {
        public int Compare(object x, object y)
        {
            SPListItem sx;
            SPListItem sy;

            if (x is SPListItem)
            {
                sx = x as SPListItem;
            }
            else throw new ArgumentException("Object is not of type SPListItem");

            if (y is SPListItem)
            {
                sy = y as SPListItem;
            }
            else throw new ArgumentException("Object is not of type SPListItem");

            if (sx["Order"] != null || sy["Order"] != null)
                return float.Parse(sx["Order"].ToString()).CompareTo(float.Parse(sy["Order"].ToString()));
            else throw new ArgumentException("SPListItem does not have an order field");
        }
    }
    #endregion

gah, oh ok, ok.. here's the usage:

// get an array from the collection so we can sort it
ArrayList items = new ArrayList();
foreach (SPListItem item in theList.Items)
{
    items.Add(item);
}
SPListItem[] sortableItems = (SPListItem[]) items.ToArray(typeof(SPListItem));
try
{
    Array.Sort(sortableItems, new SPListItemOrderer());
} catch { /* do not sort */ }

just in case you want to do something like this ( by the way that inumerating the fields code was a pain!):

foreach (SPListItem si in sortableItems)
{
    try
    {
        // debugging stuff here
        //foreach (SPField f in si.Fields)
        //{
        //    try
        //    {
        //        strOut += string.Format("<!– {0} : {1} –>\n", f.Title, si[f.Title].ToString());
        //    }
        //    catch { }
        //}

        // the URL item has two fields, comma separated
        string itemurl = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode(si["URL"].ToString().Split(',')[0].Trim());
        string itemname = si["URL"].ToString().TrimStart(itemurl.ToCharArray()).TrimStart(',').Trim();
        strOut += string.Format("<tr><td><a href=\"{0}\">{1}</a></td></tr>\n", itemurl, itemname);
    }
    catch { /* do not create markup for this link */ }
}

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