Get list of properties from List of objects

Question

Currently I use foreach loop to return a list of object properties.

 class X  {      List<X> Z = GetXlist();      List<String> r = new List<String>();       foreach (var z in Z)      {          r.Add(z.A);      }       return r; } 

Is there a way that I can shorten this so that I don't have to write the foreach loop?

Answer 1

LINQ is the answer. You can use it to "project" from your object collection to another collection - in this case a collection of object property values.

List<string> properties = objectList.Select(o => o.StringProperty).ToList();