Read-only list or unmodifiable list in .NET 4.0

Question

From what I can tell, .NET 4.0 still lacks read-only lists. Why does the framework still lack this functionality? Isn\'t this one of the commonest pieces of functionality fo

Answer 1

In 2.0 you can call AsReadOnly to get a read-only version of the list. Or wrap an existing IList in a ReadOnlyCollection object.