Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

The ReadOnlyCollection(Of T) Collection

The System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection(Of T) is the read-only counterpart of the List(Of T) class. Being read-only, you can add items to the collection only when you create an instance, but then you cannot change it. The constructor requires an argument of type IList(Of T) so that the new collection will be generated starting from an existing one. The following code demonstrates how you can instantiate a new ReadonlyCollection:

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Dim person1 As New Person With {.FirstName = "Alessandro",                                .LastName = "Del Sole",                                .Age = 37}Dim person2 As New Person With {.FirstName = "XXXXX",                                .LastName ...