How to Remove Duplicates and Get Distinct records from List using LINQ?

Below is a sample source code demonstrating on how to remove duplicates and get distinct records in List using LINQ and C#?

How to Remove Duplicates and Get Distinct records from List using LINQ?

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;


using System.Linq;

namespace AbundantCode

{
    public class Employee

    {
        public int EmpID { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
    }

    internal class Program

    {
        //How to Remove Duplicates and Get Distinct records from List using LINQ ?

        private static void Main(string[] args)

        {
            List<Employee> employees = new List<Employee>()

            {
            new Employee { EmpID = 1 , Name ="AC"},

            new Employee { EmpID = 2 , Name ="Peter"},

            new Employee { EmpID = 3 , Name ="Michael"},

            new Employee { EmpID = 3 , Name ="Michael"}
            };

            //Gets the Distinct List

            var DistinctItems = employees.GroupBy(x => x.EmpID).Select(y => y.First());

            foreach (var item in DistinctItems)

                Console.WriteLine(item.Name);

            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}
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