Question

Using the following simple Item class:

class Item
{
    public int Value { get; set; }
}

And this list of items:

var items = new List<Item>();

items.Add( new Item() { Value = 1 } );
items.Add( new Item() { Value = 2 } );
items.Add( new Item() { Value = 3 } );

How to tell the greatest value in all items?

How to determine which Item in the list has the greatest value?

Answer 1

Using LINQ

items.Max(v => v.Value)

Items containing greatest value

var max = items.Max(v => v.Value);
var x = items.Where(v => v.Value == max);

However, MaxBy extension method suggested by devdigital will iterate the collection only once