Dynamic ordering in Entity Framework

Question

I've got to implement dynamic sorting in Entity Framework. I've found a piece of code that almost allows me to do this, but it doesn't work on navigation properties.

This works:

students.OrderBy("StudentName");

This does not:

students.OrderBy("Department.Ordinal");

This is the piece of code:

http://philsversion.com/2012/02/21/orderby-a-string-in-entity-framework/

How would I be able to change this to allow for the behavior I require?

Answer 1

Check System.Dynamic.Linq . I'm using it and it handles more complex queries also with parameters.