Question

I have a custom class called CustomClass. It contains a variable called “Name” and a list of values (for the sake of simplicity let’s make this an int – in reality it is another custom class, but the principle should be the same).

So :

public class CustomClass {
   string name;


} 

I have a List<CustomClass>.

When I attempt to add a value to this List, the logic I want, is for this List to check if it contains a CustomClass with the same name as the value I want to add.

If it does, then do x, otherwise, do y.

listOfCustomClass.Contains(customClassToAdd.name) will not work in this case, I assume, however this is the functionality I require.

What is best practice here ?

Answer 1

I think you can try something like var x = MyList.Where(C=> C.Name == InsertedName) and check the result (not tested)