C#: List.Contains Method – Case Insensitive

I had a list of strings and needed to check whether or not a specific string was contained within the list ignoring the character casing.  Pre-LINQ days you would have had to loop through the entries calling the .ToLower or ToUpper method on each of the elements or using the string.Compare method.  But thanks to LINQ, one simple method will take care of this for us:

List<string> list = new List<string>() { "a", "b", "c", "d", "e" };
string value = "A";

if (list.Contains(value, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
    Console.WriteLine(value + " is in the list!");
else
    Console.WriteLine(value + " is not in the list!");