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QPARSE_E_NO_SUCH_SORT_PROPERTY
The sort property cannot be resolved
QPARSE_E_NO_SUCH_SORT_PROPERTY is HRESULT 0x80041674. Windows documents it as “An invalid property was found in the sort specification.”
Legacy API stage
This result belongs to legacy Windows query parsing and is returned while looking up a key inside the sort specification. The exact condition is: a misspelling, alias, absent custom schema or version mismatch affects the sort key.
Why it appears
Developer evidence
- Compare failing and known-good values for sort token under the same provider or handler version.
- Record the source and normalization path of canonical mapping, not only its display form.
- Record sort eligibility before releasing the relevant objects.
- Associate unsorted control query with the exact UTC timestamp and correlation identifier.
- Compare failing and known-good values for final parser input bytes under the same provider or handler version.
Disciplined troubleshooting
- Capture sort token and canonical mapping at the call boundary that returns this result.
- Confirm the operation reached looking up a key inside the sort specification with the intended catalog version.
- prove the base query succeeds without sorting and resolve the key against target schema.
Retry conditions
Use a canonical sortable property or an explicit product-approved fallback. Retrying identical parser bytes cannot succeed; regenerate the specific token or schema pairing that failed.
Misleading assumptions
Related query outcomes
QPARSE_E_INVALID_SORT_ORDER rejects only the direction token.
Developer and administrator guidance
Concrete troubleshooting case
A query sorts by the UI alias Name; retaining canonical System.ItemName in the sort clause fixes lookup.
Official Microsoft references
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