Visual Basic® Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library

Summary

The Framework Class Library provides a host of powerful, easy-to-use collection classes. The next time you need to manage a group of data, you should be well equipped to choose the right solution.

The following key points were presented in this chapter:

• The Stack collection class is used for last-in, first-out access.

• The Queue collection class provides first-in, first-out access.

• The ArrayList collection class is powerful when manipulating a collection in ranges.

• The Hashtable collection class provides fast access to items based on keys.

• The Synchronized method on a collection class returns a thread-safe wrapper for the given class.

• You can use classes such as CollectionBase and DictionaryBase to implement your own strongly typed collection ...