Best way to remove items from a collection

Question

What is the best way to approach removing items from a collection in C#, once the item is known, but not it\'s index. This is one way to do it, but it seems inelegant at be

Answer 1

There is another approach you can take depending on how you're using your collection. If you're downloading the assignments one time (e.g., when the app runs), you could translate the collection on the fly into a hashtable where:

shortname => SPRoleAssignment

If you do this, then when you want to remove an item by short name, all you need to do is remove the item from the hashtable by key.

Unfortunately, if you're loading these SPRoleAssignments a lot, that obviously isn't going to be any more cost efficient in terms of time. The suggestions other people made about using Linq would be good if you're using a new version of the .NET Framework, but otherwise, you'll have to stick to the method you're using.