using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Collections.Specialized;

private string ToQueryString(NameValueCollection nvc)
{
    var array = (
        from key in nvc.AllKeys
        from value in nvc.GetValues(key)
            select string.Format(
                "{0}={1}",
                HttpUtility.UrlEncode(key),
                HttpUtility.UrlEncode(value))
        ).ToArray();
    return "?" + string.Join("&", array);
}