Visual Basic® .NET by Example

Chapter 19. Collections

In this chapter you learn about collection classes: what they are, different types of collections, and how to use them. The chapter contains the following topics:

• Collections basics

• ArrayList

• Hashtable

• SortedList

• Queue and stack

• Making your own collections

• Tips on using collections

You start by looking at what collections are and some of the most used interfaces in the System.Collections namespace. You will learn what are the members of the ICollection, IList, IEnumerable, and IEnumerator interfaces. Then you will look at examples of the most useful classes in the namespace: ArrayList, HashTable (and its non–case-sensitive counterpart CaseInsensitiveHashTable), SortedList (and its case-insensitive counterpart CaseInsensitiveSortedList ...