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Hashtable vs. Dictionary.

What is the difference between a hashtable and a dictionary? Why isn't
Hashtable derived from DictionaryBase?
Nov 15 '05 #1
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The HashTable is the base class that is weakly type; the DictionaryBase
abstract class is stronly typed and uses internally a HashTable.

For more information, look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/fr/ms...lections1.mspx

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Nov 15 '05 #2
So conceptually there is really not much of a difference, right?

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The HashTable is the base class that is weakly type; the DictionaryBase
abstract class is stronly typed and uses internally a HashTable.

For more information, look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/fr/ms...ens/collection
s1.mspx
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Nov 15 '05 #3

"Peter Rilling" <pe***@nospam.rilling.net> wrote in message
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So conceptually there is really not much of a difference, right?

Just easier to work with. DictionaryBase is provided to make writing
strongly typed dictionaries easier, if you want to work with all
dictionaries you should use IDictionary as the base type.
"Jan Tielens" <ja*@no.spam.please.leadit.be> wrote in message
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The HashTable is the base class that is weakly type; the DictionaryBase
abstract class is stronly typed and uses internally a HashTable.

For more information, look here:

http://www.microsoft.com/belux/fr/ms...ens/collection s1.mspx

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Jan
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What is the difference between a hashtable and a dictionary? Why isn't Hashtable derived from DictionaryBase?



Nov 15 '05 #4
You can work with a Hashtable out of the box, but to use the DictionaryBase
class you'll have to create a new class and inherit from the DictionaryBase
class.

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So conceptually there is really not much of a difference, right?

"Jan Tielens" <ja*@no.spam.please.leadit.be> wrote in message
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The HashTable is the base class that is weakly type; the DictionaryBase
abstract class is stronly typed and uses internally a HashTable.

For more information, look here:

http://www.microsoft.com/belux/fr/ms...ens/collection s1.mspx

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Jan
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