How do I convert a List(Of T) to an ObservableCollection(Of T) in VB.NET?

Question

Is there a way to do this without iterating through the List and adding the items to the ObservableCollection?

Answer 1

Even though I'm late, I wanna share a quick enhancement to Junior's answer: let the developer define the converter function used to convert observable collection objects from the source collection to the destination one.

Like the following:

public static ObservableCollection ToObservableCollection(this IEnumerable coll, Func converter)
    {
        var c = new ObservableCollection();
        foreach (var e in coll)
        {
            c.Add(converter(e));
        }
        return c;
    }