C# - elegant way of partitioning a list?

Question

I\'d like to partition a list into a list of lists, by specifying the number of elements in each partition.

For instance, suppose I have the list {1, 2, ... 11}, and

Answer 1

Something like (untested air code):

IEnumerable> PartitionList(IList list, int maxCount)
{
    List partialList = new List(maxCount);
    foreach(T item in list)
    {
        if (partialList.Count == maxCount)
        {
           yield return partialList;
           partialList = new List(maxCount);
        }
        partialList.Add(item);
    }
    if (partialList.Count > 0) yield return partialList;
}

This returns an enumeration of lists rather than a list of lists, but you can easily wrap the result in a list:

IList> listOfLists = new List(PartitionList(list, maxCount));