Enumerating Dictionary Objects

[kleinma]

I am just tring to enumerate my collection class that inherits from DictionaryBase, and i just cant seem to get it working right

I have a products class containing objects of type product

when I do

for each Prod in Prods

next

where the default property in Prods is Item which returns an object of type Prod

it says there is an invalid cast...

any ideas how I can get this to work?

[crptcblade]

The enumerator for DictionaryBase actually returns DictionaryEntry objects, which contain the key/value pair. What I normally do is put this in my collection class...

Public Shadows Function GetEnumerator() As IEnumerator
        Return Dictionary.Values.GetEnumerator
    End Function

And then your code should work.

[kleinma]

using that do I not use for each in the form code then?

[kleinma]

never mind, got it to work. Thanks.

[BShadow]

Hi Kleinma,
I'm having a similar problem. Can you tell me how you fixed it?
Thx.

[kleinma]

Hmmm it was 2 years ago, and honestly I can't remember exactly what I did. If you post your code I will try to fix it though.

[BShadow]

Thanks kleinma, it's related to here;
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=441737