LINQ where or filter c#

Question

I have a collection being returned by a web service. A property of this collection is \"StatusCode\" which is a string value that can be anywhere from 0 to 5 (don\'t ask me why

Answer 1

You could define an IsIn() generic Extension Method:

public static bool IsIn(this T value, params T[] values)
{
    return values.Contains(value);
}

Then you could write your query like this:

var wo = from q in workOrders where w.IsIn("1","2","3") select w;