似乎这里给出的解决方案都不会处理字符串前的空白。

只是加上这个想法:

public static string SetFirstCharUpper2(string aValue, bool aIgonreLeadingSpaces = true)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(aValue))
        return aValue;

    string trimmed = aIgonreLeadingSpaces
           ? aValue.TrimStart()
           : aValue;

    return char.ToUpper(trimmed[0]) + trimmed.Substring(1);
}

它应该处理这个不会对其他答案起作用(那句话在开头有一个空格)，如果你不喜欢空格修剪，只需传递一个false作为第二个参数(或将默认值更改为false，如果你想处理空格，则传递true)。

string input = "red HOUSE";
System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder(input);

for (int j = 0; j < sb.Length; j++)
{
    if ( j == 0 ) //catches just the first letter
        sb[j] = System.Char.ToUpper(sb[j]);
    else  //everything else is lower case
        sb[j] = System.Char.ToLower(sb[j]);
}
// Store the new string.
string corrected = sb.ToString();
System.Console.WriteLine(corrected);

我从c#大写首字母- Dot Net Perls中获得了最快的方法，并将其转换为扩展方法:

    /// <summary>
    /// Returns the input string with the first character converted to uppercase, or mutates any nulls passed into string.Empty
    /// </summary>
    public static string FirstLetterToUpperCaseOrConvertNullToEmptyString(this string s)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(s))
            return string.Empty;

        char[] a = s.ToCharArray();
        a[0] = char.ToUpper(a[0]);
        return new string(a);
    }

注意:使用ToCharArray比替代char.ToUpper(s[0]) + s.Substring(1)更快的原因是只分配了一个字符串，而Substring方法为子字符串分配了一个字符串，然后再分配一个字符串来组成最终结果。

下面是这种方法的样子，结合CarlosMuñoz接受的答案的初始测试:

    /// <summary>
    /// Returns the input string with the first character converted to uppercase
    /// </summary>
    public static string FirstLetterToUpperCase(this string s)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(s))
            throw new ArgumentException("There is no first letter");

        char[] a = s.ToCharArray();
        a[0] = char.ToUpper(a[0]);
        return new string(a);
    }

由于这个问题是关于最大化性能的，我采用了Darren的版本来使用跨度，这减少了垃圾，并提高了大约10%的速度。

/// <summary>
/// Returns the input string with the first character converted to uppercase
/// </summary>
public static string ToUpperFirst(this string s)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(s))
        throw new ArgumentException("There is no first letter");

    Span<char> a = stackalloc char[s.Length];
    s.AsSpan(1).CopyTo(a.Slice(1));
    a[0] = char.ToUpper(s[0]);
    return new string(a);
}

性能

完整的测试代码

using System;
using System.Linq;

using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;

namespace CorePerformanceTest
{
    public class StringUpperTest
    {
        [Params("red", "red house")]
        public string Data;

        [Benchmark]
        public string Carlos() => Data.Carlos();

        [Benchmark]
        public string Darren() => Data.Darren();

        [Benchmark]
        public string Marcell() => Data.Marcell();
    }

    internal static class StringExtensions
    {
        public static string Carlos(this string input) =>
            input switch
            {
                null => throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(input)),
                "" => throw new ArgumentException($"{nameof(input)} cannot be empty", nameof(input)),
                _ => input.First().ToString().ToUpper() + input.Substring(1)
            };

        public static string Darren(this string s)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(s))
                throw new ArgumentException("There is no first letter");

            char[] a = s.ToCharArray();
            a[0] = char.ToUpper(a[0]);
            return new string(a);
        }

        public static string Marcell(this string s)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(s))
                throw new ArgumentException("There is no first letter");

            Span<char> a = stackalloc char[s.Length];
            s.AsSpan(1).CopyTo(a.Slice(1));
            a[0] = char.ToUpper(s[0]);
            return new string(a);
        }
    }

}

对于第一个字母，带有错误检查:

public string CapitalizeFirstLetter(string s)
{
    if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(s))
        return s;
    if (s.Length == 1)
        return s.ToUpper();
    return s.Remove(1).ToUpper() + s.Substring(1);
}

这是一个方便的扩展

public static string CapitalizeFirstLetter(this string s)
{
    if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(s))
        return s;
    if (s.Length == 1)
        return s.ToUpper();
    return s.Remove(1).ToUpper() + s.Substring(1);
}

这也可以使用Take, Skip和Aggregate:

    public static string FirstCharToUpper(this string text) 
    {
      if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(text)) return String.Empty;
      var first = text.Take(1).ToArray()[0].ToString().ToUpper();
      var rest = text.Skip(1).Aggregate("", ((xs, x) => xs + x));
      return first + rest;
    }