pellet/genesis.join

Genesis.Join

What?

All Genesis.* projects are formalizations of small pieces of functionality I find myself copying from project to project. Some are small to the point of triviality, but are time-savers nonetheless. They have a particular focus on performance with respect to mobile development, but are certainly applicable outside this domain.

Genesis.Join adds a convenient Join extension method to IEnumerable<string>, allowing an enumerable of strings to be joined together with a configurable separator. It is delivered as a PCL targeting a wide range of platforms, including:

• .NET 4.5
• Windows 8
• Windows Store
• Windows Phone 8
• Xamarin iOS
• Xamarin Android

Why?

Joining strings in an enumerable is something I find myself needing to do quite often. When performed within a LINQ pipeline, it's more elegant and simpler to read using an extension method than using string.Join directly.

Where?

The easiest way to get Genesis.Join is via NuGet:

Install-Package Genesis.Join

How?

You can simply call Join against any IEnumerable<string>:

var customerNames = this
    .customers
    .Select(customer => customer.Name)
    .Join(", ");

Who?

Genesis.Join is created and maintained by Kent Boogaart. Issues and pull requests are welcome.