Developer’s Guide to Collections in Microsoft® .NET

Introduction

Applications that don’t internally use some type of collection are difficult to find. Also difficult to find are books about collections. Many of the methods and properties of the Microsoft .NET collections are well documented, but it often seems like you can’t find help for the particular one you are interested in. At times, it may feel like everyone in the world should know what a hash table is, how to use it in a multithreaded environment, and when to use a list instead. But when you happen to be one of the unfortunate developers busily searching the Internet for information about how to solve a critical collection problem for tomorrow’s application release, you may find the Internet full of inconsistent information. Or you may ...