Casting IEnumerable to List

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As already suggested, use yourEnumerable.ToList(). It enumerates through your IEnumerable, storing the contents in a new List. You aren’t necessarily copying an existing list, as your IEnumerable may be generating the elements lazily.

This is exactly what the other answers are suggesting, but clearer. Here’s the disassembly so you can be sure:

public static List<TSource> ToList<TSource>(this IEnumerable<TSource> source)
{
    if (source == null)
    {
        throw Error.ArgumentNull("source");
    }
    return new List<TSource>(source);
}

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