Working with New Abstract Data Types
A revised Collection class similar to the VB6 Collection is defined in the Microsoft. VisualBasic namespace. Visual Basic .NET has added several new Abstract Data Types (ADTs) to ultimately replace the Collection class. The names of the new classes were enumerated in Chapter 2, including an example of using the Stack class. The subsections that follow demonstrate ArrayList, HashTable, SortedList, and Queue.
Members of ArrayList
The ArrayList class is a designed replacement for an unadorned array. Although arrays in Visual Basic .NET are classes, they are designed to work similarly to VB6 arrays. This means you have to resize the arrays and preserve elements manually, which is likely to yield code that is littered ...
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