You can do: Group by each item Order by descending based on group count select unique item based on group key Like: List<int> list = new List<int> { 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 6, 2 }; var query = list.GroupBy(item => item) .OrderByDescending(grp => grp.Count()) .Select(grp => grp.Key); foreach (var item in query) { Console.WriteLine(item); … Read more
The idea was to just select X nodes out of a pool of Y and the example here is simplified to show you the problem. In general it is like that I have a multi level xml that I needed to flat out to only have one sublevel (aka root + level1) but from the … Read more
I am trying to select a row [and in a comment…] I was trying to get the whole row which has several data types. Then you don’t need to Cast() or ToList(). If you want a single record, just fetch that single matching record: return database.Staff_Mod_TBLs .Single(staff => staff.Staff_No == staffNo); or, if you want … Read more
Instead of manually constructing the XML file, use a XML serializer instance. For it to correctly generate the structure, use a wrapper-class with decorated properties as follows: class XmlOrderTemplate { [XmlArray(“OrderTemplate”)] [XmlArrayItem(“Order”)] public List<OrderTemplate> Orders {get;set;} } using(var sw = new StreamWriter(fullPath)){ var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(XmlOrderTemplate)); serializer.Serialize(sw, new XmlOrderTemplate {Orders = Data}); } 2 … Read more