Array Sorting Demo

This demo illustrates how to sort an array whose elements implement the IComprable interface. All of the primitive data types in .NET - String, Integer, Double, etc. - implement IComparable and therefore arrays of these types can be sorted using Array.Sort(ArrayName).

Unsorted List of Random Numbers
80
55
33
89
55
80
44
22
66
10
46

Sorted List of Random Numbers
10
22
33
44
46
55
55
66
80
80
89

Source Code 
<script language="VB" runat="server">
  Sub Page_Load(sender as Object, e as EventArgs)
    Dim randNumbers(10) as Integer
    Dim i as Integer
    Dim rndNum as New Random()
    
    For i = 0 to 10
      randNumbers(i) = rndNum.Next(100)
    Next i
    
    ' Display the random numbers
    randNumDisplay.DataSource = randNumbers
    randNumDisplay.DataBind()
    
    ' Sort the array
    Array.Sort(randNumbers)
    
    ' Display the sorted array
    orderedNumDisplay.DataSource = randNumbers
    orderedNumDisplay.DataBind()
  End Sub
</script>

<b>Unsorted List of Random Numbers</b><br />
<asp:DataGrid runat="server" id="randNumDisplay" ShowHeader="False" />
<p>
<b>Sorted List of Random Numbers</b><br />
<asp:DataGrid runat="server" id="orderedNumDisplay" ShowHeader="False" />

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