下面是更通用的解决方案。它本质上做相同的事情(以O(N)顺序)，但对任何IEnumerable类型，并且可以与属性选择器可以返回null的类型混合。

public static class LinqExtensions
{
    public static T MinBy<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source, Func<T, IComparable> selector)
    {
        if (source == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(source));
        }
        if (selector == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(selector));
        }

        return source.Aggregate((min, cur) =>
        {
            if (min == null)
            {
                return cur;
            }

            var minComparer = selector(min);

            if (minComparer == null)
            {
                return cur;
            }

            var curComparer = selector(cur);

            if (curComparer == null)
            {
                return min;
            }

            return minComparer.CompareTo(curComparer) > 0 ? cur : min;
        });
    }
}

测试:

var nullableInts = new int?[] {5, null, 1, 4, 0, 3, null, 1};
Assert.AreEqual(0, nullableInts.MinBy(i => i));//should pass

从。net 6 (Preview 7)或更高版本开始，有了新的内置方法Enumerable。MaxBy和Enumerable。MinBy来实现这一点。

var lastBorn = people.MaxBy(p => p.DateOfBirth);

var firstBorn = people.MinBy(p => p.DateOfBirth);

编辑:

对不起。除了错过了可空值之外，我看错了函数，

Min<(Of <(TSource, TResult>)>)(IEnumerable<(Of <(TSource>)>)， Func<(Of <(TSource, TResult>)>))确实返回你所说的结果类型。

我想说一个可能的解决方案是实现IComparable，并使用Min<(Of <(TSource>)>)(IEnumerable<(Of <(TSource>)>))，它确实从IEnumerable中返回一个元素。当然，如果不能修改元素，这也没有帮助。我觉得微软的设计有点奇怪。

当然，如果你需要的话，你总是可以做一个for循环，或者使用Jon Skeet给出的MoreLINQ实现。

People.Aggregate((curMin, x) => (curMin == null || (x.DateOfBirth ?? DateTime.MaxValue) <
    curMin.DateOfBirth ? x : curMin))

另一种实现，可以使用可空的选择器键，如果没有找到合适的元素，则对于引用类型集合返回null。 例如，这对处理数据库结果很有帮助。

  public static class IEnumerableExtensions
  {
    /// <summary>
    /// Returns the element with the maximum value of a selector function.
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="TSource">The type of the elements of source.</typeparam>
    /// <typeparam name="TKey">The type of the key returned by keySelector.</typeparam>
    /// <param name="source">An IEnumerable collection values to determine the element with the maximum value of.</param>
    /// <param name="keySelector">A function to extract the key for each element.</param>
    /// <exception cref="System.ArgumentNullException">source or keySelector is null.</exception>
    /// <exception cref="System.InvalidOperationException">source contains no elements.</exception>
    /// <returns>The element in source with the maximum value of a selector function.</returns>
    public static TSource MaxBy<TSource, TKey>(this IEnumerable<TSource> source, Func<TSource, TKey> keySelector) => MaxOrMinBy(source, keySelector, 1);

    /// <summary>
    /// Returns the element with the minimum value of a selector function.
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="TSource">The type of the elements of source.</typeparam>
    /// <typeparam name="TKey">The type of the key returned by keySelector.</typeparam>
    /// <param name="source">An IEnumerable collection values to determine the element with the minimum value of.</param>
    /// <param name="keySelector">A function to extract the key for each element.</param>
    /// <exception cref="System.ArgumentNullException">source or keySelector is null.</exception>
    /// <exception cref="System.InvalidOperationException">source contains no elements.</exception>
    /// <returns>The element in source with the minimum value of a selector function.</returns>
    public static TSource MinBy<TSource, TKey>(this IEnumerable<TSource> source, Func<TSource, TKey> keySelector) => MaxOrMinBy(source, keySelector, -1);


    private static TSource MaxOrMinBy<TSource, TKey>
      (IEnumerable<TSource> source, Func<TSource, TKey> keySelector, int sign)
    {
      if (source == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(source));
      if (keySelector == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(keySelector));
      Comparer<TKey> comparer = Comparer<TKey>.Default;
      TKey value = default(TKey);
      TSource result = default(TSource);

      bool hasValue = false;

      foreach (TSource element in source)
      {
        TKey x = keySelector(element);
        if (x != null)
        {
          if (!hasValue)
          {
            value = x;
            result = element;
            hasValue = true;
          }
          else if (sign * comparer.Compare(x, value) > 0)
          {
            value = x;
            result = element;
          }
        }
      }

      if ((result != null) && !hasValue)
        throw new InvalidOperationException("The source sequence is empty");

      return result;
    }
  }

例子:

public class A
{
  public int? a;
  public A(int? a) { this.a = a; }
}

var b = a.MinBy(x => x.a);
var c = a.MaxBy(x => x.a);

不幸的是，没有内置的方法来做到这一点，但它很容易为自己实现。以下是它的核心内容:

public static TSource MinBy<TSource, TKey>(this IEnumerable<TSource> source,
    Func<TSource, TKey> selector)
{
    return source.MinBy(selector, null);
}

public static TSource MinBy<TSource, TKey>(this IEnumerable<TSource> source,
    Func<TSource, TKey> selector, IComparer<TKey> comparer)
{
    if (source == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("source");
    if (selector == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("selector");
    comparer ??= Comparer<TKey>.Default;

    using (var sourceIterator = source.GetEnumerator())
    {
        if (!sourceIterator.MoveNext())
        {
            throw new InvalidOperationException("Sequence contains no elements");
        }
        var min = sourceIterator.Current;
        var minKey = selector(min);
        while (sourceIterator.MoveNext())
        {
            var candidate = sourceIterator.Current;
            var candidateProjected = selector(candidate);
            if (comparer.Compare(candidateProjected, minKey) < 0)
            {
                min = candidate;
                minKey = candidateProjected;
            }
        }
        return min;
    }
}

使用示例:

var firstBorn = People.MinBy(p => p.DateOfBirth ?? DateTime.MaxValue);

请注意，如果序列为空，将抛出异常，如果有多个元素，则返回第一个具有最小值的元素。

或者，你也可以在MinBy.cs中使用MoreLINQ中的实现。(当然，有一个相应的MaxBy。)

通过包管理器控制台安装:

PM>安装包morelinq