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In the Java world we have Apache Commons' ToStringBuilder to help with creating toString() implementations. Does anyone know of a decent free implementation for C#? Are there better alternatives I don't know about? If no free implementation exists than I guess this question becomes more of a question of "What would make a good ToStringBuilder in C# 3?" Off the top of my head: It could offer both reflection and manual ToString string creation. It would be really cool if it could make use of Expression trees. Something like this.. public override string ToString() { return new ToStringBuilder<Foo>(this) .Append(t => t.Id) .Append(t => t.Name) .ToString(); } Which would return: "Foo{Id: 1, Name: AName}" It could use System.Reflection.Emit to precompile a ToString delegate. Any other ideas? UPDATE Just to clarify ToStringBuilder is a different creature to StringBuilder.. I'm looking for something akin to the functionality of Apache Common's ToStringBuilder, it has features such as multi-line formatting, different styles and reflection base ToString creation. Thanks. UPDATE 2 I've built my own. See here .

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