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Peter Rilling
What is the difference between a hashtable and a dictionary? Why isn't
Hashtable derived from DictionaryBase?
Hashtable derived from DictionaryBase?
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Jan Tielens
The HashTable is the base class that is weakly type; the DictionaryBase
abstract class is stronly typed and uses internally a HashTable.
For more information, look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/fr/msdn/community/columns/jtielens/collections1.mspx
abstract class is stronly typed and uses internally a HashTable.
For more information, look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/fr/msdn/community/columns/jtielens/collections1.mspx
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Peter Rilling
So conceptually there is really not much of a difference, right?
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Daniel O'Connell
Peter Rilling said:So conceptually there is really not much of a difference, right?
Just easier to work with. DictionaryBase is provided to make writing
strongly typed dictionaries easier, if you want to work with all
dictionaries you should use IDictionary as the base type.
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Jan Tielens
You can work with a Hashtable out of the box, but to use the DictionaryBase
class you'll have to create a new class and inherit from the DictionaryBase
class.
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class you'll have to create a new class and inherit from the DictionaryBase
class.
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Jan Tielens
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