Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

Chapter 26. Collections

The shapes a bright container can contain!

—Theodore Roethke

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

—Titus Maccius Plautus

It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

—Winston Churchill

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

—John F. Kennedy

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn: The non-generic and generic collections that are provided by the .NET Framework. To use class Array’s Shared methods to manipulate arrays. To use enumerators to “walk through” a collection. To use the For Each statement with the .NET collections. To use non-generic ...