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How To Count Number Of Items In A C# List

C# List<T> class provides methods and properties to create a list of objects (classes). 
 
List is a generic class. You must import the following namespace before using the List<T> class.
  1. using System.Collections.Generic;  
How to get number of items in a List with C#
 
The Count property gets the total actual number of items in list.
 
The following code snippet display number of items in a list.
  1. using System;  
  2. using System.Collections.Generic;  
  3. namespace ConsoleApp1  
  4. {  
  5.     class Program  
  6.     {  
  7.         static void Main(string[] args)  
  8.         {  
  9.             // Create a list of strings  
  10.             List<string> AuthorList = new List<string>();  
  11.             AuthorList.Add("Mahesh Chand");  
  12.             AuthorList.Add("Praveen Kumar");  
  13.             AuthorList.Add("Raj Kumar");  
  14.             AuthorList.Add("Nipun Tomar");  
  15.             AuthorList.Add("Dinesh Beniwal");  
  16.             // Count  
  17.             Console.WriteLine($"Count: {AuthorList.Count}");  
  18.         }  
  19.     }  
  20. }  
The output from above code listing is shown in below figure.
 
count in C# List 

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