Question

Is this a clean and correct way to generate a list of consecutive uints?

The cast looks kind of ugly, but I’m a beginner…might be there is a method without casting around?

public class Test
{
    static readonly IEnumerable<uint> AvailableChannels 
         = (IEnumerable<uint>)Enumerable.Range(1,1000);
}

Answer 1

static readonly IEnumerable<uint> AvailableChannels 
     = Enumerable.Range(1,1000)
       .Select(i => (uint)i)
       .ToList();

It’s still a cast though …

EDIT
The .ToList() is so the full list doesn’t need to be recreated every time you loop over it. (OK, a 1000 uints isn’t much, but it’s the principle of it – if they were classes you would create new ones every time and get unexpected results, like lost changes)

EDIT2
The Cast<uint>() doesn’t work at runtime (“Specified cast is not valid”). Changed to a .Select to perform the cast.