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Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010
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Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010

by Evangelos Petroutsos
April 2010
Beginner content levelBeginner
1056 pages
31h 5m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 12. Storing Data in Collections

One of the most common operations in programming is storing large sets of data. Traditionally, programmers used arrays to store related data. Because arrays can store custom data types, they seem to be the answer to many data-storage and data-manipulation issues. Arrays, however, don't expose all the functionality you might need in your application. To address the issues of data storage outside databases, the Framework provides, in addition to arrays, certain classes known as collections.

There are databases, of course, that can store any type of data and preserve their structure as well, but not all applications use databases. Although databases store data permanently, collections live in memory and must ...

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