Join collection of objects into comma-separated string

Question

In many places in our code we have collections of objects, from which we need to create a comma-separated list. The type of collection varies: it may be a DataTable from whi

Answer 1

You could write a function that transforms a IEnumerable into a comma separated string

public string Concat(IEnumerable stringList)
{
    StringBuilder textBuilder = new StringBuilder();
    string separator = String.Empty;
    foreach(string item in stringList)
    {
        textBuilder.Append(separator);
        textBuilder.Append(item);
        separator = ", ";
    }
    return textBuilder.ToString();
}

You can then use Linq to query your collection/dataset/etc to provide the stringList.