Imports System

Imports System.Collections.Generic

Imports System.Linq

Public Module Module1

    Public Sub Main()

        Dim references as New List(of String) FROM { "a", "b", "c", "D", "E", "F", "g", "h", "i", "j", "K", Nothing, ""}

        Console.WriteLine(String.Join(",", references.OrderBy(Function(s) s)))

        Console.WriteLine(String.Join(",", references.OrderBy(Function(s) s, StringComparer.Ordinal)))

        Console.WriteLine(String.Join(",", references.OrderBy(Function(s) s, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)))

    End Sub

End Module