How to order by column with null values last in entity framework
I would do:
using(var context = new DomainEntities())
{
var result = context.Users.OrderBy(u => u.LastName == null)
.ThenBy(u => u.LastName)
.ThenBy(u => u.FirstName == null)
.ThenBy(u => u.FirstName);
}
...which should produce reasonable SQL.
EDIT: explanation (taken from Craig's comment):
Because false
sorts before true
.
I don't know if there's some switch somewhere that you can flip. Otherwise, the straight forward approach would probably be something along the lines of
using (var context = new DomainEntities())
{
var FirstPart = context.Users.Where(u => u.LastName != null);
var SecondPart = context.Users.Where(u => u.LastName == null);
var Result = FirstPart.Union(SecondPart);
}