Learning C# 2005

14.1. Generics Until generics, all the collection classes (ArrayList, Stack, and Queue) were defined to hold objects of type Object (the root class). Thus, you could add integers and strings to the same class, and when you took items out of the co...

14.2. Collection Interfaces The .NET Framework provides a number of interfaces , such as IEnumerable and ICollection, that the designer of a collection must implement to provide full collection semantics. For example, ICollection all...

14.3. Creating Your Own Collections The goal in creating your own collections is to make them as similar to the standard .NET collections as possible. This reduces confusion, and makes for easier-to-use classes and easie...

14.4. Framework Generic Collections The .NET Framework provides four very useful generic collections , as enumerated earlier (List , Stack, Queue, and Dictionary). The most common case is that rather than writing your own collection, you'll...

14.5. Summary The .NET Framework provides a number of type-safe (generic) collections, including the list<t>, stack<t>, queue<t>, and dictionary<key><value>.You are free to create your own generic collection types as ...

14.6. Quiz Question 141 What is the convention for naming an indexer? Question 142 What types can be used in an indexer to index a collection? Question 143 What are the preconditions for calling Sort( ) on an array? Question 144 Wh...