how to check if object already exists in a list

Question

I have a list

  List myList

and I am adding items to a list and I want to check if that object is already in the list.

Answer 1

Here is a quick console app to depict the concept of how to solve your issue.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication3
{
    public class myobj
    {
        private string a = string.Empty;
        private string b = string.Empty;

        public myobj(string a, string b)
        {
            this.a = a;
            this.b = b;
        }

        public string A
        {
            get
            {
                return a;
            }
        }

        public string B
        {
            get
            {
                return b;
            }
        }
    }


    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            List list = new List();
            myobj[] objects = { new myobj("a", "b"), new myobj("c", "d"), new myobj("a", "b") };


            for (int i = 0; i < objects.Length; i++)
            {
                if (!list.Exists((delegate(myobj x) { return (string.Equals(x.A, objects[i].A) && string.Equals(x.B, objects[i].B)) ? true : false; })))
                {
                    list.Add(objects[i]);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Enjoy!