What's the most efficient way to determine whether an untrimmed string is empty in C#?

Question

I have a string that may have whitespace characters around it and I want to check to see whether it is essentially empty.

There are quite a few ways to do this:

Answer 1

public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(this String str, bool checkTrimmed)
{
  var b = String.IsNullOrEmpty(str);
  return checkTrimmed ? b && str.Trim().Length == 0 : b;
}