Sams Teach Yourself C# 5.0 in 24 Hours

Hour 10. Working with Arrays and Collections

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Single and multidimensional arrays

• Indexers

• Generic collections

• Collection initializers

• Collection interfaces

• Enumerable objects and iterators

The majority of problems solved by computer programs involve working with large amounts of data. Sometimes there is a lot of individual and unrelated datum, but many times, there are large amounts of related datum. C# provides a rich set of collection types that enable you to manage large amounts of data.

An array is the simplest type of collection and is the only one that has direct language support. Although the other collection types offer more flexibility than arrays, including the ability to create your own specialized ...