A few useful extensions for ObservableCollection

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I created a few extension methods that deal with ObservableCollection that I've been using in the WP7 projects that I hope you will find useful as well. The first method is for sorting a collection. The second is to convert IEnumerable<T> to ObservableCollection<T>:

public static class ObservableExtension

{

public static void Sort<T>(this ObservableCollection<T> collection,

IComparable<T> comparable)

{

if (comparable == null)

{

throw new ArgumentNullException("comparable is null");

}

Array.Sort<T>(collection, comparable);

}

public static ObservableCollection<T> ToObservableCollection<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source)

{

ObservableCollection<T> collection = new ObservableCollection<T>();

foreach (T item in source)

{

collection.Add(item);

}

return collection;

}

}

Enjoy...