Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET 2003 Unleashed

Collection Basics

Collections are groups of items or as in C#, objects. In C# .NET, each built-in collection implements the ICollection interface. Because the ICollection interface inherits from the IEnumerable interface, each built-in collection also implements the IEnumerable interface. In the following sections, you will gain a basic knowledge of what collections are and how they operate.

Understanding the Basic Collection Interfaces

These are collections that are provided with C#, out of the box; they all reside in the System.Collections namespace. Each implements the ICollection interface. Table 5.2 shows the members of the ICollection interface.

Table 5.2. ICollection Members

Member	Description
GetEnumerator	This method returns an Enumerator ...