C# Tips : Sort or order by Date in XML File data using LINQ with C#.Net and VB.Net example

 XML file contains various types of data like string, integer, date, etc. Now if we want to get data from XML file order by some attribute which contains dates at that time we need to do some special things if we are not doing that at that time data is not sorted date wise it will treat as normal string sorting. We can do date wise sorting. 

Here are examples for this.
In this example we are taking on 'Books.xml' file which contains books details in this XML file for each book element we are one "ReleaseDate" element which contains date value. Now we take that XML file in XMLDocument object and sort on "ReleaseDate" attribute by converting that string date into date datatype.

MVC Tips : Set Default Action Name of Controller in ASP.Net MVC 4

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You can set default action name for controller in MVC. By providing default action name you did not type action name in controller. It will automatically call default action.

We can configure Route in 'App_Start/RouteConfig.cs' file using this 'routes.MapRoute' method, where 'routes' is the object of 'RouteCollection' class. In 'MapRoute' method we can set Default values. Code is something like below :

    routes.MapRoute(
        name: "Default",
        url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
        defaults: new { id = UrlParameter.Optional,Action="List" }
    );

Here is example for this.