What is the C# .NET Silverlight equivalent of componentsSeparatedByString in Objective-C? -

what c# .net silverlight equivalent of componentsseparatedbystring in objective-c?

here how method works in objective-c:

nsstring *namesstr =  @"john;michael;jason"; nsarray *namesarray = [namesstr componentsseparatedbystring:@";"]; 

is there c# .net list?

you can use string.split:

var names = namesstr.split(';');