Answer by Philip Daubmeier for This code returns distinct values. However, what I want is to return a strongly typed collection as opposed to an anonymous type

Looks like Distinct can not compare your BarObject objects. Therefore it compares their references, which of course are all different from each other, even if they have the same contents.

So either you overwrite the Equals method, or you supply a custom EqualityComparer to Distinct. Remember to overwrite GetHashCode when you implement Equals, otherwise it will produce strange results if you put your objects for example into a dictionary or hashtable as key (e.g. HashSet<BarObject>). It might be (don't know exactly) that Distinct internally uses a hashset.

Here is a collection of good practices for GetHashCode.