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Using an Oracle database backend in conjunction with LINQ required use of a 3rd party tool called DevArt dotConnect for Oracle. However, when the database model is configured, it's hard coded to a specific database instance (Dev, Test, etc). I wanted to dynamically select which database instance to run against relative to the lane my tests were running against. It's actually easier than I thought.

We have a custom object called ListOption in our code. It holds category, value and option and fairly represents the basics of a single SelectList item. To hold the ListOption values, the primary developer stored this List as and IList instead of an ArrayList or any other concrete type. OptionList extends IEnumerable.

Here is how I sorted the IList.

On our project at work, I am experimenting with some lambda and linq expressions. It's been kind of fun except for the road-block I hit.