There seems to be a couple of different ways that people have implemented sorting in Examine.

It seems you can either set the sort on your Search Criteria like this:

Method 1

var searcher = ExamineManager.Instance.SearchProviderCollection["MySearcher"]
var searchCriteria - searcher.CreateSearchCriteria();
searchCriteria.OrderBy(new[] {"__Sort_nodeName"});

Or you can get the results first and then sort on those with:

Method 2

IEnumerable searchResults = searcher.Search(query).OrderBy(r => r.Fields["__Sort_nodeName"]);

In a current project I have tested both methods.  However with Method 1 above, the results seem to be inconsistent - some of the items end up out of order.

Don't know if it has anything to do with the way I build the query - I am building it up from a number of different parts using the Fluent API

query = searchCriteria.Field("Item1",MyVar)
query.And().Field("Item2",MyOtherVar)
query.And().Field("Item3",etcVar)
query.And().Field("Item3",etcEtcVar)

The query could in fact end up with many different parts (up to about 40).

Does anybody know what might be going wrong with Method 1 (not sure if I have provided enough code - didn't want to just dump it)

Also which method of sorting is favoured?

J