I want to make sure that _content does not end with a NewLine character:
_content = sb.ToString().Trim(new char[] { Environment.NewLine });
As Markus pointed out TrimEnd is doing the job now. I needed to get line feeds and white space from both ends of string in Windows Phone 7.8 environment. After having chased different more complex options my problem was solved by using Trim() only - passed the following tests nicely
[TestMethod]
[Description("TrimNewLines tests")]
public void Test_TrimNewLines()
{
Test_TrimNewLines_runTest("\n\r testi \n\r", "testi");
Test_TrimNewLines_runTest("\r testi \r", "testi");
Test_TrimNewLines_runTest("\n testi \n", "testi");
Test_TrimNewLines_runTest("\r\r\r\r\n\r testi \r\r\r\r \n\r", "testi");
Test_TrimNewLines_runTest("\n\r \n\n\n\n testi äål., \n\r", "testi äål.,");
Test_TrimNewLines_runTest("\n\n\n\n testi ja testi \n\r\n\n\n\n", "testi ja testi");
Test_TrimNewLines_runTest("", "");
Test_TrimNewLines_runTest("\n\r\n\n\r\n", "");
Test_TrimNewLines_runTest("\n\r \n\n \n\n", "");
}
private static void Test_TrimNewLines_runTest(string _before, string _expected)
{
string _response = _before.Trim();
Assert.IsTrue(_expected == _response, "string '" + _before + "' was translated to '" + _response + "' - should have been '" + _expected + "'");
}