Pastable version of ASP.NET MVC List Helper

<pre class='prettyprint' language='cs'>using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Text;
    using System.Web.Mvc;

/// &lt;summary&gt;
    /// Helper to avoid the tag soup that comes from rendering Lists of items.
    /// &lt;/summary&gt;
    public static class ListExtensions {

public static string RenderList&lt;T&gt;(this HtmlHelper helper, IEnumerable&lt;T&gt; list, Func&lt;T, string&gt; action,
                                            string enclosure, string itemTemplate, string empty) {

return ProcessTemplateWithFunctions(list, itemTemplate, empty, enclosure, action);

}

public static string RenderList&lt;T&gt;(this HtmlHelper helper, IEnumerable&lt;T&gt; list,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action1,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action2,
                                            string enclosure, string itemTemplate, string empty) {

return ProcessTemplateWithFunctions(list, itemTemplate, empty, enclosure, action1, action2);
        }

return ProcessTemplateWithFunctions(list, itemTemplate, empty, enclosure, action1, action2, action3);
        }

public static string RenderList&lt;T&gt;(this HtmlHelper helper, IEnumerable&lt;T&gt; list,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action1,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action2,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action3,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action4,
                                            string enclosure, string itemTemplate, string empty) {

return ProcessTemplateWithFunctions(list, itemTemplate, empty, enclosure, action1, action2, action3, action4);
        }

public static string RenderList&lt;T&gt;(this HtmlHelper helper, IEnumerable&lt;T&gt; list,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action1,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action2,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action3,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action4,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action5,
                                            string enclosure, string itemTemplate, string empty) {

return ProcessTemplateWithFunctions(list, itemTemplate, empty, enclosure, action1, action2, action3, action4, action5);
        }

public static string RenderList&lt;T&gt;(this HtmlHelper helper, IEnumerable&lt;T&gt; list,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action1,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action2,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action3,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action4,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action5,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action6,
                                            string enclosure, string itemTemplate, string empty) {

return ProcessTemplateWithFunctions(list, itemTemplate, empty, enclosure, action1, action2, action3, action4, action5, action6);
        }

static string ProcessTemplateWithFunctions&lt;T&gt;(IEnumerable&lt;T&gt; list, string itemTemplate, string empty,
                                            string enclosure,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action1,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action2 = null,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action3 = null,
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action4 = null, 
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action5 = null, 
                                            Func&lt;T, string&gt; action6 = null) {

var outerTemplate = new StringBuilder();
            var innerTemplate = new StringBuilder();

if (list==null || list.Count() == 0) {
                innerTemplate.Append(string.Format(itemTemplate, empty ?? &quot;No items to display.&quot;));
            }
            else {
                foreach (var item in list) {

if (action1 != null &amp; action2 != null &amp; action3 != null &amp; action4 != null &amp; action5 != null &amp; action6 != null) {
                        innerTemplate.Append(string.Format(itemTemplate, action1(item), action2(item), action3(item), action4(item), action5(item), action6(item)));
                    }
                    else if (action1 != null &amp; action2 != null &amp; action3 != null &amp; action4 != null &amp; action5 != null) {
                        innerTemplate.Append(string.Format(itemTemplate, action1(item), action2(item), action3(item), action4(item), action5(item)));
                    }
                    else if (action1 != null &amp; action2 != null &amp; action3 != null &amp; action4 != null) {
                        innerTemplate.Append(string.Format(itemTemplate, action1(item), action2(item), action3(item), action4(item)));
                    }
                    else if (action1 != null &amp; action2 != null &amp; action3 != null) {
                        innerTemplate.Append(string.Format(itemTemplate, action1(item), action2(item), action3(item)));
                    }
                    else if (action1 != null &amp; action2 != null) {
                        innerTemplate.Append(string.Format(itemTemplate, action1(item), action2(item)));
                    }
                    else if (action1 != null) {
                        innerTemplate.Append(string.Format(itemTemplate, action1(item)));
                    }
                }
            }

outerTemplate.Append(string.Format(enclosure, innerTemplate));

return outerTemplate.ToString();
        }

}</pre>
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