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Jan
30
2010

Creating query strings with LINQ


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While implementing a recipe search API for ChickenPing, I’ve just spotted the following hilariously verbose piece of code which concatenates parameters as part of a GET request.

StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
bool first = true;
foreach(KeyValuePair<string , string> parameter in parameters) {
    if(first) {
        first = false;
    } else {
        buffer.Append('&');
    }
    if(encodeParams) {
        buffer.AppendFormat("{0}={1}", System.Uri.EscapeDataString(parameter.Key), Uri.EscapeDataString(parameter.Value));
    } else {
        buffer.AppendFormat("{0}={1}", parameter.Key, parameter.Value);
    }
}
string queryString = buffer.ToString();
</string>

The worst thing is I only wrote this about six months ago. I simplified it to the following with LINQ:

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