The following example makes four arrays of types int, double, string, and MyType. The arrays are displayed unsorted, sorted (ascending), sorted (descending where displayed), and in the case of MyType, sorted by Age, and by Name.

Formatting in a table | 0 Mary-Beth | | 1 Aunt Alma | | 2 Sue | | 3 My Really Long Name | | 4 Matt | Enum Formatting Name: Red, Value: 0 DateTime Formatting: Predefined formats Code Format ---- ------ d 8/20/2008 D Wednesday, August 20, 2008 f Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:22 AM F Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:22:54 AM g 8/20/2008 2:22 AM G 8/20/2008 2:22:54 AM m August 20 r Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:22:54 GMT s 2008-08-20T02:22:54 t 2:22 AM T 2:22:54 AM u 2008-08-20 02:22:54Z U Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:22:54 AM DateTime Formatting: Picture formats Code Format ---- ------ ddd Wed MMMM dd, yyyy August 20, 2008 Numeric Formatting: Predefined formats Code Format ---- ------ c $12.96 d 103 e 1.296250e+001 f 12.96 g 12.9625 n 12.96 x 44e Numeric Formatting: Picture formats Code Format ---- ------ # 25 ### 25 #.00 25.00 %# %25 D4 0025 Formatting Custom Types Code Format ---- ------ b 101011 o 53 d 43 h 2b 100 in the custom B8 format is 144 100 in the custom B16 format is 64 100 in the non-custom format 'c' is $100.00 100 with no formatting is 100