Implement List In C#

Saurabh Rai

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Santhakumar Munuswamy10y ago
Welcome
Santhakumar Munuswamy10y ago
Good Start
Saillesh Pawar10y ago
nice explantation
Vipul Malhotra10y ago
nice
Jaipal Reddy10y ago
Welcome to csharpcorner . .
Gowtham K10y ago
Good One
Maruthi Palllamalli10y ago
Sorry to say this Saurabh, This is not a linked list. List is kind of collection to provide contigous memory allocation. We dont have any nodes to this list.
- Saurabh Rai10y ago
  Yes Maruthi I agree with you !! In my article I just said "you must be familiar with the concept of Linked list" for those beginners who are coming from C++ background to C#. I never made a statement in my article that "List of C#" is a linked list. By saying "C# goes further and gives you a data structure called List" - I wanted to emphasize the ease that you get when you use List in C#. Every thing is there for you to use - IsListEmpty, etc.... But I would really like to thank you . I will update the article surely to make it more clearer. Please let me know if I am wrong at some place. Thank You
Pankaj Kumar Choudhary10y ago
Nice Start ...........
Mohammed Ibrahim10y ago
nice
Raja T10y ago
Nice,Thanks for sharing
Ehsan Sajjad10y ago
Good for beginners
Debasis Saha10y ago
Nice One..
Ankur Mistry10y ago
Good start, thanks for sharing

If you have ever had the opportunity to learn C or C++, you must be very comfortable with the concepts of Linked List. C# goes further and provides you with a data structure called List. The list data structure is one of the most used data structures in any programming language and it is evident from the fact that every modern language, let it be Java, Python, etc ... supports the List Data Structure. Hence, having the concepts of List in your bag will make you an even ore complete Programmer. There will be various situations where you will love to use lists. Some of them may be:

Making a Playlist when you make a Media Player Application.
Making a list of Recipes if you are making a Cooking Application.
Showing the rows fetched from a Database in the form of a list.
Showing the products in a list if you make an E-Commerce Application.
And at many countless places ...

In short, a list is an Abstract Data Type that represents an ordered sequence of values. Some of the operations that you can directly perform on a list in C# are:

To check whether the list is empty or not.
To add an item to the list.
To count the number of items in the list.
To remove an item from the list at any index (first , last , middle, at any index).
To sort the items in the list.
To search for an element in the list.
To find the average of values/items in the list.
To remove all the elements of list at once.
To find the maximum value in a list.
To find the minimum value of a list.
To set the capacity of the list (i.e. the number of items it can hold).
And many other operations (Thanks to C# :) ) .

Let us directly jump to the implementation of the list.

Step 1: Open Visual Studio Professional 2015,