Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)

Creating Your Own Collections

The supplied collections will satisfy most application requirements, but if you want to create your own collection class, it’s quite easy to do so. With your own collection classes, you can expose the members as strongly typed items rather than as generic objects, and you can add whatever methods you need to suit the operation of that collection.

You can implement a collection from scratch, and then all you have to do to allow iteration through the collection is implement the IEnumerable interface. This consists of a single method, GetEnumerator, which returns an IEnum­erator interface. IEnumerator contains the following methods and properties:

• bool MoveNext

  This method returns the next item in the list and returns ...