Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Step by Step

Chapter 18. Using collections

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• What are collection classes?

• Create type-safe collections.

• Populate a collection with a set of data.

• Manipulate and access the data items held in a collection.

• The List<T> collection class

Chapter 10 introduces arrays for holding sets of data. Arrays are very useful in this respect, but they have their limitations. Arrays provide only limited functionality; for example, it is not easy to increase or reduce the size of an array, and neither is it a simple matter to sort the data held in an array. Another issue is that arrays only really provide a single means of accessing data, by using an integer index. If your application needs to store and retrieve data by using some ...