Collections [resolved]

[Magiaus]

Ok I fell kinda dumb asking this but here goes.

back in vb 6 to make a collection of objects I would just

Dim cObjs As Collection

cObjs.Add(mObj)

now I looked at Implementing ICollection and a Hashtable and a Storedlist and well it makes since but I don't ( I feel slow because I bet it works the same) see any example of throwing an object into the collection just use numbers or what not...

here is why I feel dumb by the way I wrote this reusable collection class about 2 months ago when I was making some COM object or another and wll I thought I had collections down pat....

it doesn't support remove but i didn't need remove

it's for implementing stuff like

class.objs(1).doSomething
class.objs(1).objs.doSomething

Option Explicit
Private mObjs As New Collection

Friend Function Add(ByRef obj As Variant, Optional iName As String = "Internal Name")
    Dim sName As String
    If iName = "Internal Name" Then
        sName = mObjs.Count + 1
    Else
        sName = iName
    End If
    mObjs.Add obj, sName
End Function

Public Function NewEnum() As IUnknown
   Set NewEnum = mObjs.[_NewEnum]
End Function

Public Property Get Count() As Integer
    Count = mObjs.Count
End Property

Public Property Get Child(ByVal Index As Variant) As Variant
    Set Child = mObjs(Index)
End Property

so anyway i feel dumb please explain it to me....

[Magiaus]

does this mean I'm not the only dumb one..?

[Bananafish]

Magiaus - I'm not sure what you are asking.

In .Net you can do the following...

dim objUserObject as New cUserObject
      Dim colX As System.Collections.ArrayList
 
      objUserObject.Property1 = "XXX"
      objUserObject.Property2 = "XXX"
      colX.Add (objUserObject)
 
'iteration
 
 
      For each objUserObject in colX
...
      Next
 
'or 
 
     objUserObject  = CType(colX.Item(0), cUserObject)

Naturally instead of an ArrayList you could use bitArray, stack, queue (and others - can't remember them off hand but they are all collections that function in slightly different ways. The arraylist is the one most similar to the vb6 collection)

[Magiaus]

thanks

[Magiaus]

what i was asking basicly was how to make a collection of objects in vb.net and i said i felt dumb asking about something as simple as collections and tried to explain why i felt dumb

thanks

[Bananafish]

I think .Net makes us all feel dumb sometimes.

It can be very frustrating knowing how to do something so well in vb6 - and then trying to do it the .net way...