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What Property Type is your ExpDate? A PropertyDate?
A good rule is not to use p.Property["PropertyName"].ToString() or p["PropertyName"].ToString() since they can be null if the property does not exist or the value can be null.
See http://world.episerver.com/Articles/Items/Best-Coding-Practices/. A good paranoia about this could be good.
Next I would have done something like this
pages = pages.OrderByDescending(p => ((DateTime) (p["ExpDate"] ?? DateTime.MinValue)) > DateTime.Now).ThenBy(p => p.PageName);
First you will order whether ExpDate is greater than current time is true or false, next by PageName.
At the moment I'm a little uncertain about if the correct implementation should be OrderBy/OrderByDescending and < or > with the datetime ordering but I hope this is a push in the right direction,
Perhaps this is more of a Linq question but it has to do with sorting a PageList so I give it a shot. The following line sorts by a date (ExpDate = Expiration Date) first presenting pages that hasn't expired (= date passed) and is the supposed to sort them from A-Z. Today being the 4th of June an example of this would be first pages A-Z with an ExpDate > 4th of June and then A-Z with an ExpDate < 4th of June.
I'm not that good at Linq and the problem with the following is that it only sorts the first part - the ones that has not yet expired - alphabetically and not the second part - the expired. Can anyone help me out and add what's missing so that they both sort from A-Z?
pages = pages.OrderByDescending(p => (DateTime.Parse(p.Property["ExpDate"].ToString()) < DateTime.Now) ? p.StartPublish.Date : DateTime.MaxValue).ThenBy(p => p.PageName);