Best way to make WPF ListView/GridView sort on column-header clicking?

I wrote a set of attached properties to automatically sort a GridView, you can check it out here. It doesn't handle the up/down arrow, but it could easily be added.

<ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Persons}"
          IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True"
          util:GridViewSort.AutoSort="True">
    <ListView.View>
        <GridView>
            <GridView.Columns>
                <GridViewColumn Header="Name"
                                DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Name}"
                                util:GridViewSort.PropertyName="Name"/>
                <GridViewColumn Header="First name"
                                DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding FirstName}"
                                util:GridViewSort.PropertyName="FirstName"/>
                <GridViewColumn Header="Date of birth"
                                DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding DateOfBirth}"
                                util:GridViewSort.PropertyName="DateOfBirth"/>
            </GridView.Columns>
        </GridView>
    </ListView.View>
</ListView>

It all depends really, if you're using the DataGrid from the WPF Toolkit then there is a built in sort, even a multi-column sort which is very useful. Check more out here:

Vincent Sibals Blog

Alternatively, if you're using a different control that doesn't support sorting, i'd recommend the following methods:

Li Gao's Custom Sorting

Followed by:

Li Gao's Faster Sorting

If you have a listview and turn it into a gridview you can easily make your gridview columns headers clickable by doing this.

        <Style TargetType="GridViewColumnHeader">
            <Setter Property="Command" Value="{Binding CommandOrderBy}"/>
            <Setter Property="CommandParameter" Value="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self},Path=Content}"/>
        </Style>

Then just set a delegate command in your code.

    public DelegateCommand CommandOrderBy { get { return new DelegateCommand(Delegated_CommandOrderBy); } }

    private void Delegated_CommandOrderBy(object obj)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }

Im going to assume you all know how to make the ICommand DelegateCommand here. this allowed me to keep all my View clicking in the ViewModel.

I only added this so that there is multiple ways to accomplish the same thing. I did not write code for adding arrow buttons in the header, but that would be done in XAML style, you would need to redesign the entire header which JanDotNet has in their code.

Just wanted to add another simple way someone can sort the the WPF ListView

void SortListView(ListView listView)
{
    IEnumerable listView_items = listView.Items.SourceCollection;
    List<MY_ITEM_CLASS> listView_items_to_list = listView_items.Cast<MY_ITEM_CLASS>().ToList();

    Comparer<MY_ITEM_CLASS> scoreComparer = Comparer<MY_ITEM_CLASS>.Create((first, second) => first.COLUMN_NAME.CompareTo(second.COLUMN_NAME));

    listView_items_to_list.Sort(scoreComparer);
    listView.ItemsSource = null;
    listView.Items.Clear();
    listView.ItemsSource = listView_items_to_list;
}

After search alot, finaly i found simple here https://www.wpf-tutorial.com/listview-control/listview-how-to-column-sorting/

private GridViewColumnHeader listViewSortCol = null;
private SortAdorner listViewSortAdorner = null;
private void GridViewColumnHeader_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
  GridViewColumnHeader column = (sender as GridViewColumnHeader);
  string sortBy = column.Tag.ToString();
  if (listViewSortCol != null)
  {
    AdornerLayer.GetAdornerLayer(listViewSortCol).Remove(listViewSortAdorner);
    yourListView.Items.SortDescriptions.Clear();
  }

  ListSortDirection newDir = ListSortDirection.Ascending;
  if (listViewSortCol == column && listViewSortAdorner.Direction == newDir)
    newDir = ListSortDirection.Descending;

  listViewSortCol = column;
  listViewSortAdorner = new SortAdorner(listViewSortCol, newDir);
  AdornerLayer.GetAdornerLayer(listViewSortCol).Add(listViewSortAdorner);
  yourListView.Items.SortDescriptions.Add(new SortDescription(sortBy, newDir));
}

Class:

public class SortAdorner : Adorner
{
    private static Geometry ascGeometry =
        Geometry.Parse("M 0 4 L 3.5 0 L 7 4 Z");

    private static Geometry descGeometry =
        Geometry.Parse("M 0 0 L 3.5 4 L 7 0 Z");

    public ListSortDirection Direction { get; private set; }

    public SortAdorner(UIElement element, ListSortDirection dir)
        : base(element)
    {
        this.Direction = dir;
    }

    protected override void OnRender(DrawingContext drawingContext)
    {
        base.OnRender(drawingContext);

        if(AdornedElement.RenderSize.Width < 20)
            return;

        TranslateTransform transform = new TranslateTransform
            (
                AdornedElement.RenderSize.Width - 15,
                (AdornedElement.RenderSize.Height - 5) / 2
            );
        drawingContext.PushTransform(transform);

        Geometry geometry = ascGeometry;
        if(this.Direction == ListSortDirection.Descending)
            geometry = descGeometry;
        drawingContext.DrawGeometry(Brushes.Black, null, geometry);

        drawingContext.Pop();
    }
}

Xaml

<GridViewColumn Width="250">
  <GridViewColumn.Header>
    <GridViewColumnHeader Tag="Name" Click="GridViewColumnHeader_Click">Name</GridViewColumnHeader>
  </GridViewColumn.Header>
  <GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
    <DataTemplate>
        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}" ToolTip="{Binding Name}"/>
    </DataTemplate>
  </GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
</GridViewColumn>