What's the neatest way to achieve “MinOrDefault” in Linq?

Question

I\'m producing a list of decimal values from a linq expression and I want the minimum non zero value. However it\'s entirely possible that the linq expression will result in

Answer 1

decimal? result = (from Item itm in itemList
                  where itm.Amount != 0
                  select (decimal?)itm.Amount).Min();

Note the conversion to decimal?. You'll get an empty result if there are none (just handle that after the fact - I'm mainly illustrating how to stop the exception). I also made "non-zero" use != rather than >.