You would think this would be an easy thing to find with a quick Goole search, but it's not. In a web app I'm working on, I just wanted to implement a simple rating for accounts from 1 to 5 stars. I figured someone has done this before and searched away. I found very little so I figured I would post some code showing how this is done in case some other poor soul wants to create a 5 star rating using C#. So here you go, internet:

public class Rating
{
	public int Weight
	{
		get;
		private set;
	}

	public int NumberOfReviews
	{
		get;
		private set;
	}

	public Rating(int weight, int numberOfReviews)
	{
		Weight = weight;
		NumberOfReviews = numberOfReviews;
	}
}

public class Program
{
	public static void Main()
	{
		var ratings = new List();
		ratings.Add(new Rating(5, 252));
		ratings.Add(new Rating(4, 124));
		ratings.Add(new Rating(3, 40));
		ratings.Add(new Rating(2, 29));
		ratings.Add(new Rating(1, 33));
		Console.WriteLine(CalculateRating(ratings));
	}

	private static decimal CalculateRating(List ratings)
	{
		double totalWeight = 0;
		int totalReviews = 0;
		foreach (var rating in ratings)
		{
			var weightByNumber = rating.Weight * rating.NumberOfReviews;
			totalWeight += weightByNumber;
			totalReviews += rating.NumberOfReviews;
		}

		return (decimal)Math.Round(totalWeight / totalReviews, 2);
	}
}

This should print out 4.12 as the rating.