Question

I have a object of type ICollection<string>. What is the best way to convert to string[].

How can this be done in .NET 2?
How can this be done cleaner in later version of C#, perhaps using LINQ in C# 3?

Answer 1

You could use the following snippet to convert it to an ordinary array:

string[] array = new string[collection.Count]; collection.CopyTo(array, 0); 

That should do the job 🙂