The best way to get a count of IEnumerable

Question

Whats the best/easiest way to obtain a count of items within an IEnumerable collection without enumerating over all of the items in the collection?

Possible with LIN

Answer 1

It also depends on what you want to achieve by counting.. If you are interested to find if the enumerable collection has any elements, you could use

myEnumerable.Any() over myEnumerable.Count() where the former will yield the first element and the later will yield all the elements.