Question

In the code below i`m trying to read a list of selected projects and a list of all projects available.

I want to store the all the projects that have not been selected from the list of all projects. But with the code below, I`m having list of all projects…Where and how to break the second loop incase projectId.Value == selectedProjectId.Value ?

public IEnumerable NotselectedProjects;
public IEnumerable NotSelectedProjects()
{

        if (this.NotselectedProjects == null)
        {
            List<SelectListItem> result = new List<SelectListItem>();
            foreach (var selectedProjectId in selectedProjects) 
            {
                foreach (var projectId in projectLists)
                {
                    if (projectId.Value != selectedProjectId.Value)
                    {
                        result.Add(new SelectListItem
                        {
                            Selected = false,
                            Text = projectId.Text,
                            Value = projectId.Value
                        });
                        this.NotselectedProjects = result.AsEnumerable();
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return this.NotselectedProjects;

    }

Answer 1

You could use LINQ to shorten your loop to

var result = from projectId in projectLists
             where !selectedProjects.Any(s => s.Value == projectId.Value)
             select new SelectListItem  
                        {  
                            Selected = false,  
                            Text = projectId.Text,  
                            Value = projectId.Value  
                        });