I am not sure if this is the appropriate forum for my question but I think it is more of a general c# problem than LINQ I am running a LINQ query which populates a list used by a DropDownList, I need to insert an "Unassigned" value to the list. The function below queries the values correctly from the db but does not insert the "Unaasinged" value to the list. Please help. Code: public List GetTestList() { KeyValuePair item = new KeyValuePair(0, "Unassigned"); using (DataClassesDataContext db = new DataClassesDataContext()) { var Query = from records in db.TEST_SUITEs orderby records.TEST_SUITE_ID select new KeyValuePair ( records.TEST_SUITE_ID, string.Format(records.TEST_SUITE_ID + " " + records.SUITE_TYPE + " " + records.SUITE_NAME) ); //Query.ToList().Insert(0, item); Query.ToList().Insert(0,item); return Query.ToList(); } }