如何根据其中一个按字母顺序对 4 个单独的字符串数组（具有相同的长度）进行排序？ （在 C# 中）

Question

I have read out per WMI the installed programs on a remote PC. I have read the Program Name, Program Publisher, Program Install.date and Program install.path properties and stored each of them in a separate string array. (All arrays with same length: 99)

I want to list the program informations according to the alphabetical order of Program name. Is it possible to do that without combining the 4 arrays in one multidimensional array? Or should I first combine the arrays to one two dimensional array ? If yes how?

As I am new in C# I would thank you if you would make a suggestion. I have read lots of entries but I got more confused.

    public string[] Programs_WMI_name = new string[99];
    public string[] Programs_WMI_publisher = new string[99];
    public string[] Programs_WMI_installdate = new string[99];
    public string[] Programs_WMI_installlocation = new string[99];

I have tried this but get error:

In my public Class

    public class TagService{
    public string Programs_WMI_Name { get; set; }
    public string Programs_WMI_Publisher { get; set; }
    public string Programs_WMI_Installdate { get; set; }
    public string Programs_WMI_Installlocation { get; set; }
    public List<string> programs = new List<string>(99);
    }

then

    for (int i = 0; i < TagService.Programs_WMI_name.Length; i++)
            {
                programs.Add(new TagService
                {
                    Programs_WMI_Name = TagService.Programs_WMI_name[i],
                    Programs_WMI_Publisher = TagService.Programs_WMI_publisher[i],
                    Programs_WMI_Installdate = TagService.Programs_WMI_installdate[i],
                    Programs_WMI_Installlocation = TagService.Programs_WMI_installlocation[i],
                });
            }
            programs = programs.OrderBy(p => p.Programs_WMI_Name).ToList();
    

Answer 1

Do yourself and others a favor and use classes

public class ProgramInfo
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Publisher { get; set; }
    public string InstallDate { get; set; }
    public string InstallLocation { get; set; }
}

from arrays

var programs = new List<ProgramInfo>(Programs_WMI_name.Length);
for (int i = 0; i < Programs_WMI_name.Length; i++)
{
    programs.Add(new ProgramInfo
    {
            Name = Programs_WMI_name[i],
            Publisher = Programs_WMI_publisher[i],
            InstallDate = Programs_WMI_installdate[i],
            InstallLocation = Programs_WMI_installlocation[i],
    });
}

better yet fill from query directly

var programs = new List<ProgramInfo>();
foreach (var row in new ManagementObjectSearcher(somequery).Get())
{
    programs.Add(new ProgramInfo
    {
        Name = row["name"],
        Publisher = row["publisher"],
        InstallDate = row["installdate"],
        InstallLocation = row["installlocation"],
    });
}

then inplace (more efficient)

programs.Sort((l, r) => string.Compare(l.Name, r.Name));

or as a copy

programs = programs.Orderby(p => p.Name).ToList();