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GetItems for folders not sorting?

I noticed some wierd behaviour in the GetItems method. I used ItemType.Folders and RecursionLevel.Full.

What I wanted to do was get a list of folders under a given root. I wanted to use this to create a windows app with a treeview which mimiced the TFS Source Control Explorer.

But the list of folders returned is not sorted. It was trivial to export the folder names to an array and then sort it, but this seems like a bug?

P.S.: Originally posted in Build Automation but was told to post here.

DQM

Hello,

As far as I know it is not sorted; I am not sure it is a bug as it is not obvious what default sorting should be (ABC asc?). So in our Sidekick applications the sorting is performed internally in the application, not in TFS. Additionally, if you have both folders and files (with ItemType All), you will also have to sort that according to your app requirements.

Regards, Eugene

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eugene.z

Like Eugene said, the output isn't sorted because different clients will want to use different IComparers depending on locale, etc.

Besides, if you're going to be displaying them in a GUI, you'll need to have a sorter associated with your WinForm control anyway so that the display remains sorted as it updates. Tim has a good blog post on how to do this: http://blogs.msdn.com/hippietim/archive/2006/03/20/555893.aspx

Richard Berg MSFT

Ok, thanks for clarifying. I assumed that the list returned would be sorted in the same order as folder names in Team Explorer GUI.

In my case I needed only the ServerItem values so extracting and sorting that was not a problem.

DQM

As Chandru noted in the other thread, sorting is

Richard Berg MSFT

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