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sean717
sean717

Reputation: 12663

Will .NET allocate memory for the list?

If I instantiated five objects of Employee class: emp1,emp2...emp5 and put them in a listA of IList. Now if I create another IList listB which contains subset of listA, for example

IList<Employee> listB = listA.Take(3).ToList()

are Employee objects in listB refrence to the same Employee in the listA?

Thanks,

Upvotes: 0

Views: 185

Answers (2)

Rana Hossain
Rana Hossain

Reputation: 415

I am not sure if you can do that; You will need to create a new list and add the items to it - which means it would be a copy. You think can also do that by using .ToList()

Upvotes: 0

mqp
mqp

Reputation: 71945

Yes, with the caveat that .Take doesn't create an IList. If you wrote listA.Take(3).ToList(), then your description of the results (the list containing references to the same objects) would be accurate.

Upvotes: 3

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