Thanks to nHibernate, some of the data structures I work with are lists within lists within lists. So for example I have a data object called "category" which has a .Children property that resolves to a list of categories ... each one of which can have children ... and so on and so on.
I need to find a way of starting at a top-level category in this structure and getting a list or array or something similar of all the children in the entire structure - so all the children of all the children etc etc, flattened into a single list.
I'm sure it can be done with recursion, but I find recursive code a pain to work through, and I'm convinced there must be a more straightforward way in .Net 4 using Linq or somesuch - any suggestions?