How to Sort an Array of Objects?

[regalis]

Hi everybody,
i'm new to this forum and also to C#.
I hope someone with more experience can help me with my problem.
Given is the following Class

        public class movie
        {
            public long ID { get; set; }
            public string NAME { get; set; } // 0
            public string SIZE { get; set; } // 1
            public string TYPE { get; set; } // 2
            public DateTime CHANGEDATE { get; set; } // 3
            public DateTime CREATIONDATE { get; set; } // 4
            public DateTime LASTUSED { get; set; } // 5
            public string ARCHIVE { get; set; }
            public string PATH { get; set; }

            public movie() { }
        }

I have an Array of movie Objects, now i wanted to sort the Array by "ARCHIVE" which contains a string like "HDD 1" or "DVD - 145".

The sorting is quite good with this line of code:

Array.Sort(MovieArray, (x, y) => string.Compare(x.ARCHIVE, y.ARCHIVE, true));

But the Problem is that when all Movies have the same ARCHIVE-String (because they are all on the same Medium) the Names of the Movies will be totaly unsorted after sorting by ARCHIVE.
It looks like this:

[B]Before sorting:[/B]
["Movie A", "HDD1"]
["Movie B", "HDD1"]
["Movie C", "HDD1"]
["Movie D", "HDD1"]
["Movie E", "HDD1"]

[B]After Sorting:[/B]
["Movie D", "HDD1"]
["Movie E", "HDD1"]
["Movie A", "HDD1"]
["Movie B", "HDD1"]
["Movie C", "HDD1"]

Does anyone have a hint how to sort first by ARCHIVE and after that by NAME?
What i generally want is:

["Movie A", "HDD1"]
["Movie B", "HDD1"]
["Movie C", "HDD1"]
["Movie D", "HDD1"]
["Movie E", "HDD1"]
["Movie A", "HDD2"]
["Movie B", "HDD2"]
["Movie C", "HDD2"]
["Movie D", "HDD2"]
["Movie E", "HDD2"]
["Movie A", "HDD4"]
["Movie B", "HDD4"]
["Movie C", "HDD4"]
["Movie D", "HDD4"]
["Movie E", "HDD4"]

Thank you for reading my Post and hopefully you can help me with this.

greetings regalis

[Christian Binder]

Hy,

if you're able to use LINQ, you can do it that way:

//MovieArray has type movie[]
movie[] ordered1 = MovieArray.OrderBy(mov => mov.ARCHIVE).ThenBy(mov => mov.NAME).ToArray();

just the same, only in other notation:

movie[] ordered2 = (from mov in MovieArray
                    orderby mov.ARCHIVE, mov.NAME
                    select mov).ToArray();

[regalis]

Hi ChBinder,
thank you very much for your help.
I like the way you have done the sorting and it works perfect!
100000 hugs to you :)

greetz regalis