Sort a List by enum where enum is out of order

Question

I have a List of messages. Each message has a type.

public enum MessageType
{
    Foo = 0,
    Bar = 1,
    Boo = 2,
    Doo = 3
}

The enum

Answer 1

You may avoid writing a completely new type just to implement IComparable. Use the Comparer class instead:

IComparer comparer = Comparer.Create((message) =>
    {
    // lambda that compares things
    });
tempList.Sort(comparer);