"Cannot convert to IComparer"

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Published on 2009-09-28T13:58:04Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 10:24 UTC
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I have the following IComparer defined for boxed RegistryItem objects:

public class BoxedRegistryItemComparer : IComparer<object>
{
    public int Compare(object left, object right)
    {
        RegistryItem leftReg = (RegistryItem)left;
        RegistryItem rightReg = (RegistryItem)right;

        return string.Compare(leftReg.Name, rightReg.Name);
    }
}

I want to use this to sort an ArrayList of boxed RegistryItems (It really should be a List<RegistryItem>, but that's out of my control).

ArrayList regItems = new ArrayList();
// fill up the list ...
BoxedRegistryItemComparer comparer = new BoxedRegistryItemComparer();
ArrayList.sort(comparer);

However, the last line gives the compiler error: "Cannot convert from BoxedRegistryItemComparer to System.Collections.IComparer". I would appreciate it if someone could point out my mistake.

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