Question

I am working with a generic List which I add Employee objects to.
I know how to add and remove from it, but how do I “read” object data from it and how do I access methods and properties for a specific object in the list.

Let’s say the Employee class contains the property below, how do I access it to modify the objects data?

public string FirstNameData
{
   get { return v_firstName; }
   set { v_firstName = value; }
}

Answer 1

Assuming:

var myList = new List<Employee>();

You have many options here…

First, you can index it directly:

var firstName = myList[0].FirstNameData

You can enumerate over it:

foreach(var employee in myList)
  ProcessName(employee.FirstNameData);

If you are using .Net 3.5 or greater, you can use Linq exetnsions:

var firstName = myList.First().FirstNameData;
var allFirstNames = myList.Select(employee => employee.FirstNameData);

It all depends on what you want to do…