How to order the list of model by string length property

Question

I have a class Users:

class User
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public Address Address { get; set; }
    public DateTime Birthday { get; set; }
}

Then I have a list of users like List<User> users . And I meet with the problem which sounds "How to order list by Name length string property?

I've tried something like this:

users.OrderBy(user=>user.Name.Length);

and unfortunately it didn't work.

Thanks for the reply and best regards.

Answer 1

Providing that the list doesn't have null users as well as null names:

users.Sort((Comparison<User>) ((left, right) => 
  return left.Name.Length - right.Name.Length;
));

Note, that the code sorts an existing list users , while OrderBy creates a new collection :

users = users
  .OrderBy(user => user.Name.Length)
  .ToList();