need a collection that retains order and allows InsertAt(index) AND is accessible by key or index

[dx]

Any ideas? I can't find any examples that support this.

I'm thinking a solution may be something like inherting arraylist and
containing a hashtable.

or

Inheriting NameObjectCollectionBase and containing an arraylist to use for
looping thru in 'order'.
My current implementation display an inaccurate order, since the newly added
member is always appended to the end of the collection. Right now I'm
inheriting NameObjectCollectionBase, it seems to give meme everthing but
allowing me to InsertAt a specific location (therefore my order is wacked
when i enumerate.) The only potential solution I can think of for the
current implementation is to override the Add(), place all items in a
temporary contained collection, clear the class collection, and re-add using
some logic to add them in the appropriate order. I don't think this is a
good idea to clear the entire collection just to add a new item in an
appropriate order.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Stan

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

dx,
Have you looked at System.Collections.SortedList? (Wrapping SortedList in a
class similar to CollectionBase).

Alternatively your Add method can either Sort the list after you added it or
you can do an Insertion sort (find the position in the list for the new item
& insert the item at the position. ArrayList.BinarySearch is useful for
this). Which of course requires an Insert method.

Hope this helps
Jay

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Any ideas? I can't find any examples that support this.

I'm thinking a solution may be something like inherting arraylist and
containing a hashtable.

or

Inheriting NameObjectCollectionBase and containing an arraylist to use for
looping thru in 'order'.
My current implementation display an inaccurate order, since the newly
added member is always appended to the end of the collection. Right now
I'm inheriting NameObjectCollectionBase, it seems to give meme everthing
but allowing me to InsertAt a specific location (therefore my order is
wacked when i enumerate.) The only potential solution I can think of for
the current implementation is to override the Add(), place all items in a
temporary contained collection, clear the class collection, and re-add
using some logic to add them in the appropriate order. I don't think this
is a good idea to clear the entire collection just to add a new item in an
appropriate order.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Stan