Need to sort a list alphabetically

Question

I need to sort out the following list alphabetically increasing order.

IList<KeyValuePair<long, string>> myList = new List<KeyValuePair<long, string>>()

The list is getting populated after making DB call.

myList = DataAdapter.GetTemplates().ToList();

Tried method:

myList = myList.OrderBy(x => x.Value,StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase).ToList();

However, this doesn't seem to be working correctly. Before sorting:

Assessment1
Assessment2
Assess5
Assess7
Toxic Only
Perform Only
Question only

After sorting:

Assess5
Assess7 
Assessment1
Assessment2
Perform Only
Question only
Toxic Only

Answer 1

Note This answer was posted before OP changed their question. Originally OP wanted to sort all of the items except the first one. Original revision

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You could do this using LINQ:

myList = myList
    .Take(1) // take the first item from the list
    .Concat( // concatenate the following subquery
        myList
            .Skip(1) // take all elements after the first one
            .OrderBy(kv => kv.Value, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase) // sort by the value ignoring the case
    )
    .ToList(); // materialise the query to a list

The current comparer is case insensitive, but you can choose an appropriate one for your use case.

The result for your sample input is as follows:

Assessment1
Assess5
Assess7
Assessment2
Perform Only
Question only
Toxic Only

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Answer 2

you can use bubble sort, just start the second loop from 1

for (int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++)
            for (int j = 1; j < n - i - 1; j++)
                if (arr[j] > arr[j + 1])
                {
                    int temp = arr[j];
                    arr[j] = arr[j + 1];
                    arr[j + 1] = temp;
                }
    }

as shown above, 2nd loop is started with 1, so it will exclude element at the 0th index