C# 4.0 Unleashed

Other Collection Types

Collections are the bread and butter for many library or application writers. Even though the number of collection types we’ve already seen is quite big, even more collection types are hiding out there. Because their use is more specialized, we limit ourselves to some pointers as to where to find them:

• System.Collections.Specialized contains, as the name implies, specialized collections that aren’t used very frequently and typically provide solutions to specific problems or performance challenges. Examples include a bit vector type, a hybrid dictionary, and some remains from the nongeneric ages.

• System.Collections.ObjectModel provides the Collection<T> base class for generic collections as well as the ReadOnlyCollection<T> ...