In this post, I am going to explain how we can convert an generic list to simple int array with Help of Linq. Recently, I was working on an application and there I needed an Int array of for list of ids in generic list. I tried various methods and then with the help of ‘Select’ operator and ToArray method I have easily converted an generic list to the int array. Lets take a simple example. I need a contact id list from a generic list of contacts and following is my contact class.
public class Contact { public int ContactId { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } }
Now I have created a new GetContacts methods to create a new Generic List of Contacts.
private static List GetContacts() { List contacts=new List(); for (int i = 1; i c.ContactId).ToArray(); foreach (int contactId in contactIds) { Console.WriteLine(contactId); } }
Here you can see with Select Operator and ToArray method I can easily convert a list into array. Let’s run the example
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