Most succinct way to convert ListBox.items to a generic list
c#, collections, generics, type-conversion
Solution
A bit of LINQ should do it:-
var myOtherList = lbMyListBox.Items.Cast<String>().ToList();
Of course you can modify the Type parameter of the Cast to whatever type you have stored in the Items property.
Problem
I am using C# and targeting the .NET Framework 3.5. I'm looking for a small, succinct and efficient piece of code to copy all of the items in a ListBox to a `List<String>` (Generic List). At the moment I have something similar to the below code: ``` List<String> myOtherList = new List<String>(); // Populate our colCriteria with the selected columns. foreach (String strCol in lbMyListBox.Items) { myOtherList.Add(strCol); } ``` Which works, of course, but I can't help but get the feeling that there must be a better way of doing this with some of the newer language features. I was thinking of something like the List.ConvertAll method but this only applies to Generic Lists and not ListBox.ObjectCollection collections.