In the first part of my series on Generics in VB.NET I discussed the advantages of generic collections. In this installment I’ll cover the Nullable Generic Structure.
First, let’s cover some background. A type is nullable if it can be assigned a value or Nothing (null in C#). For example a String object is nullable because [...]
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Dim, ReDim, ReDim Preseve, Repeat. Sound familiar? If so, maybe you want to look into generic collections. In the System.Collections namespace the ArrayList class will give you a dynamically allocated list of objects that’s easy to use. You won’t need to worry about ReDim’ing the array if you need to add items, and you won’t have [...]
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