Search for Object in Generic List

Question

Is it possible to search for an object by one of its properties in a Generic List?

Public Class Customer

    Private _id As Integer

    Private _name As St         


        

Answer 1

You could also overload the equals method and then do a contains. like this

Dim list as new list(Of Customer)

list.Add(New Customer(1,"A")

list.Add(New Customer(2,"B")

list.contains(new customer(1,"A"))

the equals method then would look like this

public overrides function Equals(Obj as object) as Boolean
   return Me.Id.Equals(ctype(Obj,Customer).Id
end Function

Not tested but it should be close enough.