The Queue
Collection
The System.Collections.Queue
collection works according to the FIFO (First-In, First-Out) paradigm, meaning that the first item you add to the collection is the first pulled out from the collection. Queue
exposes two methods, Enqueue
that adds a new item to the collection and Dequeue
that removes an item from the collection. Both methods receive an argument of type Object
. The following code provides an example:
You just need to invoke the Dequeue
method to consume and automatically remove an item from the collection. You can also invoke the Peek
method which just returns the first item from the collection without removing ...
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