Order by not working for more than 10 items

I am trying to sort a xml using linq queries using the following code

Dim SortedFields = From field In feedXML.Descendants("fields")
Dim sFieldList = From field In SortedFields.Descendants("field") Order By field.@position

The xml is shown below, but the issue is it is ordering it in the following order 1,10,11,12,13,14...19,2,3,4,5,6,7 instead of 1,2,3,4,5....10,11,12,.....19.

Can anybody help me sorting it in the correct order?

<fields>
    <field position="'6'" tablename="Students" headername="6" fieldreference="ClientField1" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'7'" tablename="Students" headername="7" fieldreference="ClientField2" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'8'" tablename="Students" headername="8" fieldreference="ClientField3" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'9'" tablename="Students" headername="9" fieldreference="ClientField4" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'10'" tablename="Students" headername="10" fieldreference="ClientField5" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'1'" tablename="Students" headername="1" fieldreference="ClientField6" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'2'" tablename="Students" headername="2" fieldreference="ClientField7" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'3'" tablename="Students" headername="3" fieldreference="ClientField8" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'4'" tablename="Students" headername="4" fieldreference="ClientField9" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'5'" tablename="Students" headername="5" fieldreference="ClientField10" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'11'" tablename="Students" headername="11" fieldreference="ClientField11" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'12'" tablename="Students" headername="12" fieldreference="ClientField12" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'13'" tablename="Students" headername="13" fieldreference="ClientField13" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'14'" tablename="Students" headername="14" fieldreference="ClientField14" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'15'" tablename="Students" headername="15" fieldreference="ClientField15" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'16'" tablename="Students" headername="16" fieldreference="ClientField16" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'17'" tablename="Students" headername="17" fieldreference="ClientField17" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'18'" tablename="Students" headername="18" fieldreference="ClientField18" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
    <field position="'19'" tablename="Students" headername="19" fieldreference="ClientField19" orderbydirection="ASC" displaycolumn="T" />
</fields>

From stackoverflow

• As Paul Tomblin points out this is alphabeticical ordering. If position is going to always be a number then you can cast it into an integer using (int?)

  Dim SortedFields = From field In feedXML.Descendants("fields")
                              Dim sFieldList = From field In SortedFields.Descendants("field") Order By (int?)field.@position
  

  Jon Skeet : Can you really do a conversion just like that in VB?

  Mithil Deshmukh : Awesome...That worked...Thanks a ton!

  Mithil Deshmukh : Order By Integer.Parse(field.@position) is the right expression..Thanks again!

  Joel Coehoorn : DirectCast() or CInt() would be a more direct translation: they are operators, but Integer.Parse() is a function call.

• It's sorting in alphabetical order. You need to convert the position attribute to an integer in your Order By clause:

  Dim SortedFields = From field In feedXML.Descendants("fields")
  Dim sFieldList = From field In SortedFields.Descendants("field") _
      Order By CType(field.@position, Integer)
  

  (Apologies if there's a better conversion available... that's the code suggested by the XAttribute conversion operator page)

  Mithil Deshmukh : How to convert it to integer?

  Jon Skeet : See my edited answer.