Any and First(OrDefault) - best practice C# with Example
I won't explain what Any and FirstOrDefault does because there are already two good example about them. See Any and First, FirstOrDefault, Last, LastOrDefault, Single, and SingleOrDefault for more information. A pattern I often see in code which should be avoided is if (myEnumerable.Any(t=>t.Foo == "Bob")) { var myFoo = myEnumerable.First(t=>t.Foo == "Bob"); //Do stuff } It could be written more efficiently like this var myFoo = myEnumerable.FirstOrDefault(t=>t.Foo == "Bob"); if (myFoo != null) { //Do stuff } By using the second example, the collection is searched only once and give the same result as the first one. The same idea can be applied to Single.