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Conveniently Remove a List of Items From Another List

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Jul 2, 2012

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Convenient way to remove items from list when items exist in second list.

Say you have two lists. You want to remove the items from the first list that already exist in a second list:
Dim listFirst As List(Of String) = New List(Of String)
Dim listSecond As List(Of String) = New List(Of String)

listFirst.Add("A")
listFirst.Add("B")
listFirst.Add("C")
listFirst.Add("D")
listFirst.Add("E")
listFirst.Add("F")

listSecond.Add("A")
listSecond.Add("D")
listSecond.Add("F")

Dim different As IEnumerable(Of String) = listFirst.Except(listSecond)
listFirst = different.ToList()
Result:
B
C
E