Eureka.  It finally sunk in.  Here is what I needed to do.

When I was creating the 'category' nodes I was setting the sort override like this:

oNewNode.Override.Sort = Ascending (as you mentioned this is worthless and does nothing)

it needed to be

oNewNode.Nodes.Override.Sort = Ascending.

Thank you for your help.  Knew it was something simple that I was just overlooking.

I'm really not sure I understand what you are trying to do. The Sort property exists on the Override. That means you can set it many different levels. There is an Override on the tree control itself - this will affect all nodes in the tree.

There is an Override on every Nodes collection that will affect all the nodes in that collection.

There is an Override on the Node itself, which will only affect a single node - this obviously has no effect on sorting, since it makes no sense to sort a single node, but there are other properties on the Override that apply.

There is also the NodeLevelOverrides collection, which allows you to apply settings to a particular level. For example, NodeLevelOverrides(0) would  affect all root-level nodes. NodeLevelOverrides[1] would affect all nodes that are direct children of the root.

Ok, I tried your solution.  Unfortuantely there was no change in the behavior.  Question about the solution:

Basically what I am doing is loading the treeview with the second level folders.  As I load them I set the .Override.Sort = Ascending.  From a second procedure I load the third level which are the nodes that I want to have sorted.  From your response it would appear that I should set the Override.Sort on the FIRST level, not the SECOND.  Is that correct?

Could this be a control property problem?  Such as the ViewState? Also, I am calling the RefreshSort method just after I complete the load of all items.  Should I not do this?

Thanks again for your attention and patience.

Well, you are setting Sort on the Node, not the Nodes collection. You are essentially sorting a single node, which of course has no meaning.

 I think you need to change:

oNewNode.Override.Sort = SortType.Ascending

to

.Override.Sort = SortType.Ascending

Mike, thanks for the clarification. Though that describes what I am trying to do.  The Treeview.Override.Sort has been set to Default.  ViewStyle = Standard.  Here is my code below.  Note that I am setting the Node.Override.Sort = Ascending.  Anything that you can see

' Code to add the Categories Nodes

Dim oStartNode As UltraTreeNode
oStartNode = utvItems.GetNodeByKey("MasterOrder")

With oStartNode.Nodes

End With

' Code to add each Item to the Categories

Dim oCatNode As UltraTreeNode
oCatNode = utvItems.GetNodeByKey(String.Format("MO{0}", JobID))

With oCatNode.Nodes

Dim oNewNode As New UltraTreeNode(String.Format("I{0}", dr("iItemID").ToString), String.Format("{0} - {1}", dr("sEPICCode").ToString, dr("sItemDesc").ToString))

oNewNode.Override.NodeAppearance.Image = My.Resources.Green_48
oNewNode.Override.ActiveNodeAppearance.FontData.Bold = DefaultableBoolean.True

.Add(oNewNode)

End With