Distinct in Linq based on only one field of the table

MoreLinq has a DistinctBy method that you can use:

It will allow you to do:

var results = table1.DistictBy(row => row.Text);

The implementation of the method (short of argument validation) is as follows:

private static IEnumerable<TSource> DistinctByImpl<TSource, TKey>(IEnumerable<TSource> source,
    Func<TSource, TKey> keySelector, IEqualityComparer<TKey> comparer)
{
    HashSet<TKey> knownKeys = new HashSet<TKey>(comparer);
    foreach (TSource element in source)
    {
        if (knownKeys.Add(keySelector(element)))
        {
            yield return element;
        }
    }
}

but I need results where r.text is not duplicated

Sounds as if you want this:

table1.GroupBy(x => x.Text)
      .Where(g => g.Count() == 1)
      .Select(g => g.First());

This will select rows where the Text is unique.

Daniel Hilgarth's answer above leads to a System.NotSupported exception With Entity-Framework. With Entity-Framework, it has to be:

table1.GroupBy(x => x.Text).Select(x => x.FirstOrDefault());

Try this:

table1.GroupBy(x => x.Text).Select(x => x.FirstOrDefault());

This will group the table by Text and use the first row from each groups resulting in rows where Text is distinct.