Question

I have a List<IAgStkObject>. Each IAgStkObject has a property called InstanceName. How can I search through my List to find if any of the contained IAgStkObject(s) have a particular InstanceName? In the past I would have used a foreach loop.. but this seems too slow.

WulfgarPro

Answer 1

If the only thing you have is a List (not ordered by InstanceName), there is no faster way (if you do similar tests often, you can preprocess the data and create e.g. a Dictionary indexed by the InstanceName).

The only way different from “the past” would be those useful extension methods allowing you to write just

return myList.Any(item => item.InstanceName == "Searched name");