Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET 2003 Kick Start

In Brief

This chapter discussed how to work with and create your own collections in C#. Here's an overview of the topics we've discussed:

• Arrays, which are supported by the System.Array class. This is actually an abstract class; you're better off using the standard array syntax in C#. Arrays support the methods and properties of the System.Array class.

• Bit arrays, based on the BitArray class, let you access the individual elements of an array as bits.

• ArrayList collections work much like arrays, except that they're extensible. You can add and remove elements in array lists using the Add and Remove methods.

• Hashtable collections are dictionary collections that let you store values using keys. Instead of an array index, you pass the key to the hash ...