How do I use Linq to obtain a unique list of properties from a list of objects?

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mezoid picture mezoid · Feb 20, 2009 · Viewed 130.9k times · Source

I'm trying to use Linq to return a list of ids given a list of objects where the id is a property. I'd like to be able to do this without looping through each object and pulling out the unique ids that I find.

I have a list of objects of type MyClass and one of the properties of this class is an ID.

public class MyClass
{
  public int ID { get; set; }
}

What I want to do is write a Linq query to return me a list of those Ids

How do I do that given an IList<MyClass> such that it returns an IEnumerable<int> of the ids?

I'm sure it must be possible to do it in one or two lines using Linq rather than looping through each item in the MyClass list and adding the unique values into a list.

Any help in creating an elegant solution would be much appreciated!

Answer

Marc Gravell picture Marc Gravell · Feb 20, 2009 
IEnumerable<int> ids = list.Select(x=>x.ID).Distinct();

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