C# beginner question on collections

[ScapinVS]

Hi there,

I am a Visual C++ developer and I now have to write something in C# for a project.

My question is about objects and object arrays. In C++ i used CObject and CObArrays for this. My objects were derived from CObject and I used a CObArray to hold them.

What classes can I use for this in C#.net ? I need a collection class for iterating, insertion and deletion of objects etc.

Do you have any hint. I find the MSDN not very helpful with this one unfortunately.

Thanks a lot,
scapin

[Zaccheus]

Have a look at the treeviews on the lefthand side of the following webpages:

System.Collections Namespace

and

System.Collections.Generic Namespace

[jhammer]

For array of objects you should use ArrayList.

If you want a typed collection (a collection of a specific type), use the generic List<YourType>.

Each object in C# inherits from Object class.

Each of the options gives you automatic insertion and deletion.
You can iterate by using the foreach statement:

foreach (YourType obj in yourCollection)
    obj.DoSomething();

[ScapinVS]

Thank you! Both helped me out!

Bye,
Scapin

[dcell59]

Unless you really need to have different types of objects in your collections, you are better off using generics whenever possible. It makes things so much easier to deal with.