Find the item with the lowest value of a property within a list

Question

Let\'s say I have this class:

class Person {
   public int ID;
   public string Name;
}

And then I have a list of Person\'s.

Answer 1

You can use MinBy method from More Linq library:

var person = persons.MinBy(x => x.ID);

If you can't use a third party library you can get the min ID first and then get the person that has the min ID:

var minID = person.Min(x => x.ID);
var person = persons.First(x => x.ID == minID);