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Did you know... You can do multi-column sorting (secondary sort, etc.) in both the Error List and Task List - #183

Both the Error List and the Task List have support for multi-column sorting, like secondary sort (and can someone remind me what's the term for 3rd-ary - the term that comes after secondary). 

For example, you want to sort all Tasks (or Errors) by File first, then by Line Number, so you can go through each file in the order in which the Tasks (or Errors) appear.

To do a secondary sort

  1. Click on the column that you wish to have as primary sort (like File)
  2. Shift+Click on the next column you wish to have as secondary sort (like Line Number)
  3. Rinse and Repeat for other columns

For the Task List, you can see how things are sorted first by File, then by Line number.

Task List displaying secondary sort

Same for the Error List

Error List Displaying Secondary Sort

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Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008 3:00 AM by saraford

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nevill said:

Third is tertiary.

Regards,

# March 31, 2008 7:16 AM

Chamindu said:

I believe the word you are looking for is tertiary.

# March 31, 2008 7:35 AM

molotov said:

I think you've hit it - thirdary.  <g>

I've seen "tertiary", and <i>much</i> less often "ternary", used to describe this.

# March 31, 2008 8:31 AM

Matt Cempa said:

Sara,

The answer to your question is tertiary, 1[Medieval Latin tertiarius, from Latin, of a third] : a member of a monastic third order

# March 31, 2008 8:36 AM

DoniG said:

Great geek words for the next code review...

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/primary?view=uk

What comes after primary, secondary, tertiary?

The sequence continues with quaternary, quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary, denary. Words also exist for `twelfth order' (duodenary) and `twentieth order' (vigenary).

# March 31, 2008 9:06 AM

Anderson Imes said:

Tertiary, Quaternary... I don't think beyond 4 is very useful... really beyond 2, but that's just me.

# March 31, 2008 9:29 AM

Susan Hernandez said:

I think the "3rd" term is tertiary.  I keep forgetting that you can double- and triple-sort.  Thanks for the tips.

# March 31, 2008 10:09 AM

Arlin said:

I believe the term you're looking for is "tertiary". But we all know what you meant!

# March 31, 2008 10:52 AM

StevenLJackson1 said:

Is "ternary" the term you're looking for?

# March 31, 2008 11:55 AM

StevenLJackson1 said:

Is "ternary" the term you're looking for?  Or is is "tertiary"?

How about "third"?  :-)

# March 31, 2008 11:56 AM

Stevi Deter said:

Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary...

Ok, I'll quit now!

# March 31, 2008 12:03 PM

HRushdanMCT said:

Thanks for the post.

That's great that VS 2008 can allow multi-sorting.

I for one say keep the cool features coming!

Also, in response to your question regarding the term for 3rd-ary

The term you are looking for is "tertiary"

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=tertiary&pg=1&grp=dict

# March 31, 2008 1:23 PM

Seth said:

'ternary' is cardinal

'tertiary' is ordinal

# March 31, 2008 4:56 PM

Seth said:

IMNSHO...anything after tertiary is ornary

# March 31, 2008 4:58 PM

saraford said:

Someone on my team sent me this link earlier today.

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/primary

according to askoxford.com,

The sequence continues with quaternary, quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary, denary. Words also exist for `twelfth order' (duodenary) and `twentieth order' (vigenary).

learn something new every day.

# March 31, 2008 5:43 PM

molotov said:

>> learn something new every day. <<

Indeed... Anyone else think of "duodenum" when you read "duodenary"?  30cm = ~12in...

# April 1, 2008 8:29 AM

CoqBlog said:

Dans la fameuse série Did you know... de Sara Ford : Did you know... You can use Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down

# April 5, 2008 7:09 PM

xjb said:

# December 30, 2008 7:43 PM
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