Just for reference - sorting it via Xdoc for now.

    XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Parse(CurrentPage.history.ToString());

    var doc = xDoc.Element("items").Elements("item").OrderByDescending(n => n.Value);

    XDocument sortedGrid = new XDocument(new XElement("items", doc));

loop:

   @foreach (XElement xe in sortedGrid.Descendants("item"))

                   {

@xe.Element("year").Value

}

Thanks

Well.. you should sort on "sortOrder" attribute of your datagrid item. 

take a look at the datagrids XML, stored in your umbraco.config, could besomething like that,,..

  <datagrid>
    <items>
      <item id="1" sortOrder="3">
        <news nodeName="Image" nodeType="1034">1111</image>
      </item>
      <item id="2" sortOrder="1">
        <news nodeName="Image" nodeType="1034">1121</image>
      </item>
      <item id="3" sortOrder="2">
        <news nodeName="Image" nodeType="1034">1311</image>
      </item>
    </datagrid>

happy coding (c:

XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Parse(datagrid);

            var doc = xDoc.Element("items").Elements("item").OrderBy(n => int.Parse(n.Attribute("sortOrder").Value));

            XDocument sortedGrid = new XDocument(new XElement("items", doc));

            return sortedGrid;

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