Does .NET have a way to check if List a contains all items in List b?

I know a way using LinQ methods. It's a bit weird to read, but works pretty well

var motherList = new List<string> { "Hello", "World", "User };
var sonList = new List<string> { "Hello", "User" };

You want to check if sonList is totally in motherList

To do so:

sonList.All(str => moterList.Any(word => word == str));

// Reading literally, would be like "For each of all items 
// in sonList, test if it's in motherList

Please check it on and see if works there too. Hope it helps ;-)

Included in .NET 4: Enumerable.All

public static bool ContainsAll<T>(IEnumerable<T> source, IEnumerable<T> values)
{
    return values.All(value => source.Contains(value));
}

Just for fun, @JonSkeet's answer as an extension method:

/// <summary>
/// Does a list contain all values of another list?
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>Needs .NET 3.5 or greater.  Source:  https://stackoverflow.com/a/1520664/1037948 </remarks>
/// <typeparam name="T">list value type</typeparam>
/// <param name="containingList">the larger list we're checking in</param>
/// <param name="lookupList">the list to look for in the containing list</param>
/// <returns>true if it has everything</returns>
public static bool ContainsAll<T>(this IEnumerable<T> containingList, IEnumerable<T> lookupList) {
    return ! lookupList.Except(containingList).Any();
}

If you're using .NET 3.5, it's easy:

public class ListHelper<T>
{
    public static bool ContainsAllItems(List<T> a, List<T> b)
    {
        return !b.Except(a).Any();
    }
}

This checks whether there are any elements in b which aren't in a - and then inverts the result.

Note that it would be slightly more conventional to make the method generic rather than the class, and there's no reason to require List<T> instead of IEnumerable<T> - so this would probably be preferred:

public static class LinqExtras // Or whatever
{
    public static bool ContainsAllItems<T>(this IEnumerable<T> a, IEnumerable<T> b)
    {
        return !b.Except(a).Any();
    }
}