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poy
poy

Reputation: 10507

.NET Collection only in VB

Why is the Collection in the Microsoft.VisualBasic library? Why is it not in a more general location. Is there a reason Microsoft "hid" it from C#?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 199

Answers (3)

Rob P.
Rob P.

Reputation: 15071

The Collection in the Microsoft.VisualBasic library is a throw-back to the older VB6 Collection.

There is a System.Collection namespace that you should probably look into for the basic .NET collection functionality you probably want.

Also, it's kind of worth mentioning that you CAN add a reference and make use of the System.VisualBasic namespace in your C# code. It's just that, most of the time, there isn't any need to do it (example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173136.aspx).

EDIT - Updated namespace - sorry!

Upvotes: 7

Steven Doggart
Steven Doggart

Reputation: 43743

It is intended for backwards compatibility with VB6. You should not use it, if possible, for new code. List(Of T) would be the preferred general purpose collection.

Upvotes: 2

Sean U
Sean U

Reputation: 6850

It's a functional equivalent to the Collection class from VB6. It's there just to ease porting of VB6 code; for anything new you should use the normal .NET collection classes.

Upvotes: 1

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