I have been struggling with dumping a list<T> as a grid

ARMPLINKER

I have a List<T> that consists of a variable number of class objects with properties. The List<T> initializes as expected with N objects - and if I debug the List<T> the properties are all there for each.

But, When I Dump() the list, the properties do not come out in the order of declaration. Is there a way to be sure that properties in the grid will match to the declaration order?

For example:

[Serializable]
 **public class YsListMe : List<**Y**>**
{
}

**public class Y**
{
public string Prop1{ get; set; }

    public string Prop1Label { get; set; } = "";

public string Prop2 { get; set; }

    public string Prop2Label { get; set; } ="";

}

var dt= new Y()
{
 Prop1="10";
  Prop1Label="foo1";
  Prop2="1000";
 Prop2Label="foo2";
}

comes out as:

10, 0, foo1, foo2

when I expected it to be
10, foo1, 0, foo2

Is the order of assignment in the constructor to blame? If I do this instead, for example, will this generate the order of items ?

var dt= new Y()
{
  // values
  Prop1="10";
  Prop2="1000";
  // labels
  Prop1Label="foo1";
  Prop2Label="foo2";
 }

ARMPLINKER

Or is it by data type?

nescafe

The properties should come out in order of declaration. Which version of LINQPad are you using?

What do you see when you reflect the query in ILSpy?

Query: http://share.linqpad.net/dwa96k.linq

sgmoore

Strange.

The default order should be defined by Edit/Preferences/Results/Column Ordering

Your example does not compile, but it looks like in your case they should both be the same.