Creating Collections in C#

[john sutor]

How can you create a collection of objects in C# like you can in VB?
In VB you say
Dim myCol as new Collection
and then add the item and index

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

John,

There is nothing that offers the EXACT functionality of the collection
class in VB (the Collection class uses string keys only, etc, etc). What
you can use in its place though is the Hashtable. This will allow you to
store items in it using any object as a key (including strings).

Hope this helps.

 

[Chris Capel]

Use System.Collections.ArrayList.

Chris

 

[Reginald Blue]

How can you create a collection of objects in C# like you can in VB?
In VB you say
Dim myCol as new Collection
and then add the item and index

There's one other view of Collections in .Net and VB and that is the support
of the 'for each' syntax.

In the case of .Net, a class that wants to support for_each must implement
the IEnumerable interface and, thus, support the GetEnumerator method.

Otherwise, as far as adding items and indexing items, you can do it pretty
much however you like (and there were several suggestions already which I
won't repeat).

--
Reginald Blue
"I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my
telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my
telephone."
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International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces]