[c#] Select distinct values from a list using LINQ in C#

I have a collection of Employee

Class Employee

{
  empName
  empID
  empLoc 
  empPL
  empShift
}

My list contains

 empName,empID,empLoc,empPL,empShift
    E1,1,L1,EPL1,S1 
    E2,2,L2,EPL2,S2
    E3,3,L3,EPL3,S3
    E4,4,L1,EPL1,S1
    E5,5,L5,EPL5,S5
        E6,6,L2,EPL2,S2

I need to take the employees having distinct values empLoc,empPL,empShift.

Is there is any way to achieve this using LINQ ?

I was curious about which method would be faster:

1. Using Distinct with a custom IEqualityComparer or
2. Using the GroupBy method described by Cuong Le.

I found that depending on the size of the input data and the number of groups, the Distinct method can be a lot more performant. (as the number of groups tends towards the number of elements in the list, distinct runs faster).

Code runs in LinqPad!

    void Main()
    {
        List<C> cs = new List<C>();
        foreach(var i in Enumerable.Range(0,Int16.MaxValue*1000))
        {
            int modValue = Int16.MaxValue; //vary this value to see how the size of groups changes performance characteristics. Try 1, 5, 10, and very large numbers
            int j = i%modValue; 
            cs.Add(new C{I = i, J = j});
        }
        cs.Count ().Dump("Size of input array");

        TestGrouping(cs);
        TestDistinct(cs);
    }

    public void TestGrouping(List<C> cs)
    {
        Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        sw.Restart();
        var groupedCount  = cs.GroupBy (o => o.J).Select(s => s.First()).Count();
        groupedCount.Dump("num groups");
        sw.ElapsedMilliseconds.Dump("elapsed time for using grouping");
    }

    public void TestDistinct(List<C> cs)
    {
        Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        var distinctCount = cs.Distinct(new CComparerOnJ()).Count ();
        distinctCount.Dump("num distinct");
        sw.ElapsedMilliseconds.Dump("elapsed time for using distinct");
    }

    public class C
    {
        public int I {get; set;}
        public int J {get; set;}
    }

    public class CComparerOnJ : IEqualityComparer<C>
    {
        public bool Equals(C x, C y)
        {
            return x.J.Equals(y.J);
        }

        public int GetHashCode(C obj)
        {
            return obj.J.GetHashCode();
        }
    }

Try,

var newList = 
(
from x in empCollection
select new {Loc = x.empLoc, PL = x.empPL, Shift = x.empShift}
).Distinct();

You can use GroupBy with anonymous type, and then get First:

list.GroupBy(e => new { 
                          empLoc = e.empLoc, 
                          empPL = e.empPL, 
                          empShift = e.empShift 
                       })

    .Select(g => g.First());

You can try with this code

var result =  (from  item in List
              select new 
              {
                 EmpLoc = item.empLoc,
                 EmpPL= item.empPL,
                 EmpShift= item.empShift
              })
              .ToList()
              .Distinct();