List<string> to object[]

Question

I have a method that returns a List<string> and I'm trying to pass that to the AddRange(Object[]) method of a ComboBox.

How can I convert my List<string> to Object[]?

I suppose I could do a foreach but I'd rather use the AddRange(Object[]) as it's faster (and produces less code).

EDIT

The following works fine:

var list = new List<string>();
object[] array = list.ToArray<object>();
comboBox.AddRange(array);

However, on another note, any reason why I would want to perform the above instead of:

var list = new list<string>();
comboBox.AddRange(list.ToArray<object>());

Answer 1

You can do it using ToArray generic method:

var list = new List<string>();
object[] array = list.ToArray<object>();

You don't even need Cast<object>, because ToArray takes IEnumerable<T> which is covariant on generic type parameter.