>I'm assembling data from SQL server and VFP sources into a tab delimited txt file with 13 fields in it.
>My current approach is to step thru the tables, populate 13 properties for each record and then assemble the properties with a writeline statement, separating each field with quotes and a tab character.
>It seems kind of primitive after COPY TO x DELIMITED.
>Is there a better way?


You could write a reusable method that outputs a string with a variable number of parameters

	class Test
	{
		//______________________________________________________________________
		static void Main()
		{
			Console.WriteLine(ToTabDelimited("field1", "field2"));

			Console.WriteLine(ToTabDelimited(1223, 456));
			Console.WriteLine(ToTabDelimited("road 23", "88000", "San Diego"));

			Console.ReadLine();

		}
		//______________________________________________________________________
		static string ToTabDelimited(params object[] list)
		{
			StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

			for (var i = -1; ++i < list.Length; )
			{
				sb.AppendFormat("\"{{{0}}}\"\t", i);
			}
						
			return String.Format(sb.ToString(0, sb.Length - 1), list);
		}
	}