Tiny way to get the first 25 characters

Question

Can anyone think of a nicer way to do the following:

public string ShortDescription
{
    get { return this.Description.Length <= 25 ? this.Description :          


        

Answer 1

One way to do it:

int length = Math.Min(Description.Length, 25);
return Description.Substring(0, length) + "...";

There are two lines instead of one, but shorter ones :).

Edit: As pointed out in the comments, this gets you the ... all the time, so the answer was wrong. Correcting it means we go back to the original solution.

At this point, I think using string extensions is the only option to shorten the code. And that makes sense only when that code is repeated in at least a few places...