Chapter 19. Managing Collections of Objects

IN THIS CHAPTER

As Visual Basic programmers, we have a number of new options available for managing collections of objects. The simple, but effective, collection object that we had become accustomed to as VB developers is a relic. The System.Collections namespace adds a number of specialized collection classes to our programmer's tool belt. This chapter focuses on those collections and on indicating when you might implement a given solution.

After reading this chapter, you should

  • Understand the differences between all the collection classes in the namespace

  • Decide when to implement a given type of collection class

  • Be able to write code using the ...

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