what is the property for the size of a List in C#?

Question

How do you access the size of a List<> in c#? In an array it's array.length, but what is the property for a List<>?

Answer 1

It is the Count property for List, and in almost any other collection class in the Framework. The Count property is also defined on the ICollection<T> interface.

Answer 2

The Count property will give you the number of objects in the list.

Answer 3

If you want to know how many elements are in the list then use the Count property.

int numElements = list.Count;

On the other hand if you want to know how many elements the backing storage of the List<T> can currently handle then then use the Capacity property.

int size = list.Capacity;