LINQ Methods

LINQ is now most freuently used by programmers to query Collections. It reduces number of lines of code. Lets discuss available LINQ methods.

These fuctions can be applied to only those collections which implements IQueryable<T> interface or IEnumerable interface.

Below are the available methods . Click on each method to know more about it and we will take difference between methods which have nearly same output like First and FirstOrDefault , First and Take(1)  etc.

1. Aggregate 
2. All 
3. Any 
4. AsQueryable 
5. Average 
6. Cast 
7. Concat 
8. Contains 
9. Count 
10. DefaultIfEmpty 
11. Distinct 
12. ElementAt 
13. ElementAtOrDefault 
14. Except 
15. First 
16. FirstOrDefault 
17. GroupBy 
18. GroupJoin 
19. Intersect 
20. Join 
21. Last 
22. LastOrDefault 
23. LongCount 
24. Max 
25. Min 
26. OfType 
27. OrderBy 
28. OrderByDescending 
29. Reverse 
30. Select 
31. SelectMany 
32. SequenceEqual 
33. Single 
34. SingleOrDefault 
35. Skip 
36. SkipWhile 
37. Sum 
38. Take 
39. TakeWhile 
40. ThenBy 
41. ThenByDescending 
42. Union 
43. Where 
44. Zip