Sorting TreeViewItemAdv in WPF TreeViewAdv (Classic)

4 May 20212 minutes to read

TreeViewAdv has the advanced ability to sort the TreeViewItemAdv items at run time. The Sorting property of the control allows you to specify the direction of sorting. The sorting options are as follows.

  • Ascending
  • Descending
  • None (default)
<syncfusion:TreeViewAdv Name="treeViewAdv" Sorting="Ascending"  >
<!-- Adding TreeViewItemAdv -->
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Name="treeViewItemAdv"    Header="Marital Status">
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Single"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Married"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Married with Children"/>
</syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Baby Vaccines">
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Hepatitis B"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Tetanus"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Polio"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Measles"/>
</syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Country Information">
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Canada"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="France"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Germany"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="UK"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="USA"/>
</syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv>
</syncfusion:TreeViewAdv>
//Sort the item
treeViewAdv.Sorting = SortDirection.Ascending;
'Sort the item
treeViewAdv.Sorting = SortDirection.Ascending

Sorting field

Using SortingField property, you can specify a sorting criteria. This is dependency property, which gets or sets the property name being used as the sorting criteria. The default value is Header.

<syncfusion:TreeViewAdv Name="treeViewAdv" Sorting="Ascending" SortingField="Header"  >
<!-- Adding TreeViewItemAdv -->
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Name="treeViewItemAdv"    Header="Marital Status">
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Single"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Married"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Married with Children"/>
</syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Baby Vaccines">
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Hepatitis B"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Tetanus"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Polio"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Measles"/>
</syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Country Information">
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Canada"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="France"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="Germany"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="UK"/>
<syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv Header="USA"/>
</syncfusion:TreeViewItemAdv>
</syncfusion:TreeViewAdv>
//Sort the item based on criteria
treeViewAdv.SortingField = "Header";
'Sort the item based on criteria
treeViewAdv.SortingField = "Header"

Show the sorted WPF TreeView items