How To Count Number Of Items In A C# List

C# List<T> class provides methods and properties to create a list of objects (classes). 

 

List is a generic class. You must import the following namespace before using the List<T> class.

using System.Collections.Generic;

How to get number of items in a List with C#

 

The Count property gets the total actual number of items in list.

 

The following code snippet display number of items in a list.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
namespace ConsoleApp1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Create a list of strings
            List<string> AuthorList = new List<string>();
            AuthorList.Add("Mahesh Chand");
            AuthorList.Add("Praveen Kumar");
            AuthorList.Add("Raj Kumar");
            AuthorList.Add("Nipun Tomar");
            AuthorList.Add("Dinesh Beniwal");
            // Count
            Console.WriteLine($"Count: {AuthorList.Count}");
        }
    }
}

The output from above code listing is shown in below figure.

 

 

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