How to get DISTINCT items from List - using Linq

In this Blog you will have simple solution to get the DISTINCT items from List of Strings.

public static List<string> GetDistinctItems(List<string> duplicateItems) { return (from dItem in duplicateItems select dItem).Distinct().ToList(); }

In this above single line static method the Distinct() of Linq statement has been used to return the DISTINCT items from List of strings.

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