Remove duplicates from a List in C#

Question

Anyone have a quick method for de-duplicating a generic List in C#?

Answer 1

There are many ways to solve - the duplicates issue in the List, below is one of them:

List containerList = LoadContainer();//Assume it has duplicates
List filteredList = new  List();
foreach (var container in containerList)
{ 
  Container duplicateContainer = containerList.Find(delegate(Container checkContainer)
  { return (checkContainer.UniqueId == container.UniqueId); });
   //Assume 'UniqueId' is the property of the Container class on which u r making a search

    if(!containerList.Contains(duplicateContainer) //Add object when not found in the new class object
      {
        filteredList.Add(container);
       }
  }

Cheers Ravi Ganesan