How to use IndexOf() method of List<object>

Question

All the examples I see of using the IndexOf() method in List are of basic string types. What I want to know is how to return the index of

Answer 1

int index = employeeList.FindIndex(employee => employee.LastName.Equals(somename, StringComparison.Ordinal));

Edit: Without lambdas for C# 2.0 (the original doesn't use LINQ or any .NET 3+ features, just the lambda syntax in C# 3.0):

int index = employeeList.FindIndex(
    delegate(Employee employee)
    {
        return employee.LastName.Equals(somename, StringComparison.Ordinal);
    });