VB.NET Language in a Nutshell, Second Edition

Name

Collection.Count Property

Class

Microsoft.VisualBasic.Collection

Syntax

                  objectvariable.Count

objectvariable (required; Collection Object)

Object variable referring to a Collection object

Description

Returns an Integer containing the number of members in the collection

Rules at a Glance

Collections are 1-based; that is, the index of the first element of a collection is 1. In contrast, arrays are 0-based; the index of the first element of an array is 0.

Example

For i = 1 To colMyCollection.Count
    Set colSubCollection = colMyCollection.Item(CStr(i))
    MsgBox colSubCollection.Item("Name")
    Set colSubCollection = Nothing
Next i

Programming Tips and Gotchas

Because collections are 1-based, you can iterate the members of a collection by using index values ranging from 1 to the value of objectvariable .Count.

See Also

Collection Class, Collection.Add Method, Collection.Item Method, Collection.Remove Method