Sort a list alphabetically

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I have the following class:

class Detail
{
    public Detail()
    {
        _details = new List<string>();
    }
    public IList<string> Details { get { return _details; } }
    private readonly List<string> _details;
}

Currently I sort the class randomly using the following:

void ShuffleGenericList<T>(IList<T> list)
{
    //generate a Random instance
    var rnd = new Random();
    //get the count of items in the list
    var i = list.Count();
    //do we have a reference type or a value type
    T val = default(T);

    //we will loop through the list backwards
    while (i >= 1)
    {
        //decrement our counter
        i--;
        //grab the next random item from the list
        var nextIndex = rnd.Next(i, list.Count());
        val = list[nextIndex];
        //start swapping values
        list[nextIndex] = list[i];
        list[i] = val;
    }
}

What I would like to do is to sort the contents of details in alphabetic order.

So for example if the contents look like this:

[0] a
[1] d
[2] b

I want to be able to run this method and have them sorted into:

[0] a
[1] b
[2] d

Does anyone know of a simple way to do this? Note that the lists usually have less than ten entries in them. Can I do this with LINQ? Sorry but I am not very familiar with LINQ I have just heard a suggestion that I could use that.

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