Collection

[Mike]

Hi guys;

I created a class that inherits from DictionaryBase class.
The thing is that I want to allow the user when using my class to enter
duplicate keys in the collection like;

Dim myCl as new MyDictionary
myCl.Dictionary.Add("Mike", AnObject)
myCl.Dictionary.Add("Mike", AnObject2)
myCl.Dictionary.Add("Mike", AnObject3)

how can I achieve this inhering from DictionaryBase?

Thanks guys!

[Kerry Moorman]

Mike,

I think that all of the .Net key-value collections require unique, non-null
keys.

Kerry Moorman
"Mike" wrote:

Hi guys;

I created a class that inherits from DictionaryBase class.
The thing is that I want to allow the user when using my class to enter
duplicate keys in the collection like;

Dim myCl as new MyDictionary
myCl.Dictionary.Add("Mike", AnObject)
myCl.Dictionary.Add("Mike", AnObject2)
myCl.Dictionary.Add("Mike", AnObject3)

how can I achieve this inhering from DictionaryBase?

Thanks guys!

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Kerry Moorman" <Ke**********@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:

I think that all of the .Net key-value collections require unique,
non-null
keys.

Exception: The 'NamedValueCollection' which store all values for a certain
key in a single string. However, this is not a very flexible solution.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[m.posseth]

maybe i am thinking to simplistic here :-)

but why don`t you just add the objects to a object array and store them
under one name in the dictionary

regards

Michel Posseth [MCP]


"Mike" <mi**@hitnext.com> wrote in message
news:uR**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Hi guys;

I created a class that inherits from DictionaryBase class.
The thing is that I want to allow the user when using my class to enter
duplicate keys in the collection like;

Dim myCl as new MyDictionary
myCl.Dictionary.Add("Mike", AnObject)
myCl.Dictionary.Add("Mike", AnObject2)
myCl.Dictionary.Add("Mike", AnObject3)

how can I achieve this inhering from DictionaryBase?

Thanks guys!