Got more of the sorting stuff working, started implementing much of the back office security checks in the content controller, updates some of the c# unit tests and got a self-hosted test running (but commented out currently until we can mock things properly).

src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/common/resources/content.resource.js

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ function contentResource($q, $http, umbDataFormatter, umbRequestHelper) {
             if (options.orderDirection === "asc") {
                 options.orderDirection = "Ascending";
             }
-            else {
+            else if (options.orderDirection === "desc") {
                 options.orderDirection = "Descending";
             }