list - How to cast a type to specific class in c# 4.0 after querying LINQ to Object

Question

i have a list of customer and later i query that list of customer to extract one customer data based on country code. how to achieve easily this task. here is my code snippet

public class Customer
{
        public string Name
        { get; set; }

        public double Salary
        { get; set; }

        public string CountryCode
        { get; set; }
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
            List<Customer> oCust = new List<Customer>();
            oCust.Add(new Customer { Name = "Tridip", Salary = 200, CountryCode = "GB" });
            oCust.Add(new Customer { Name = "Ari", Salary = 200, CountryCode = "US" });
            oCust.Add(new Customer { Name = "Dib", Salary = 200, CountryCode = "CA" });

            Customer oCustomer = oCust.Where(x => x.CountryCode == "US");
}

this line is giving error Customer oCustomer = oCust.Where(x => x.CountryCode == "US");

i could follow this below approach to solve it

    var oCustomer = oCust.Where(x => x.CountryCode == "US");

    foreach (var item in oCustomer)
    {
        Customer _Cust = new Customer();
        _Cust.Name = item.Name;
        _Cust.Salary = item.Salary;
        _Cust.CountryCode = item.CountryCode;
    }

but i like to know is there any other way around to get one customer data after querying list. please let me know with sample code. also discuss how to solve the above scenario using auto mapper with sample code.

thanks

Answer 1

Use .FirstOrDefault() to get the first element matching your Where(), or null when none match:

var oCustomer = oCust.Where(x => x.CountryCode == "US").FirstOrDefault();

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also discuss how to solve the above scenario using auto mapper with sample code.

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