what does <object>["text"] mean?

[Rasarx]

Being new to VB, I'm trying to understand what a construct like ["name"] means and how to use it. I thought anything with brackets is an escaped variable to allow using keywords like boolean, as in [boolean]. But I don't get this construct, especially in conjuction with an object, as in mo["name"] in the example below. Is mo["name"] an array element? What exactly is it and how do you use it?

Console.WriteLi ne("Computer details retrieved using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)");
ManagementObjec tSearcher query1 = new ManagementObjec tSearcher("SELE CT * FROM Win32_Operating System");
ManagementObjec tCollection queryCollection 1 = query1.Get();
foreach (ManagementObje ct mo in queryCollection 1)
{
Console.WriteLi ne("Name : " + mo["name"].ToString());
Console.WriteLi ne("Version : " + mo["version"].ToString());
}

[VBPhilly]

Being new to VB, I'm trying to understand what a construct like ["name"] means and how to use it. I thought anything with brackets is an escaped variable to allow using keywords like boolean, as in [boolean]. But I don't get this construct, especially in conjuction with an object, as in mo["name"] in the example below. Is mo["name"] an array element? What exactly is it and how do you use it?

Console.WriteLi ne("Computer details retrieved using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)");
ManagementObjec tSearcher query1 = new ManagementObjec tSearcher("SELE CT * FROM Win32_Operating System");
ManagementObjec tCollection queryCollection 1 = query1.Get();
foreach (ManagementObje ct mo in queryCollection 1)
{
Console.WriteLi ne("Name : " + mo["name"].ToString());
Console.WriteLi ne("Version : " + mo["version"].ToString());
}

It looks like an array or collection.
However, the curly braces tell me this is not VB.
I would check with the C# folks to be certain. But, I think "mo" is an array/collection and the "name" and "versions" are indexes of the mo object.

[VBPhilly]

Being new to VB, I'm trying to understand what a construct like ["name"] means and how to use it. I thought anything with brackets is an escaped variable to allow using keywords like boolean, as in [boolean]. But I don't get this construct, especially in conjuction with an object, as in mo["name"] in the example below. Is mo["name"] an array element? What exactly is it and how do you use it?

Console.WriteLi ne("Computer details retrieved using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)");
ManagementObjec tSearcher query1 = new ManagementObjec tSearcher("SELE CT * FROM Win32_Operating System");
ManagementObjec tCollection queryCollection 1 = query1.Get();
foreach (ManagementObje ct mo in queryCollection 1)
{
Console.WriteLi ne("Name : " + mo["name"].ToString());
Console.WriteLi ne("Version : " + mo["version"].ToString());
}

Ok, I figured I could give some more detail

mo is an object of type ManagementObjec t which exists in the queryCollection 1 which is of type ManagementObjec tCollection.
mo is the object, "name" and "version" are properties of ManagementObjec t. I hope I donthave to explain ToString to you :)

[Killer42]

Looks like Java, to me.

[Rasarx]

Thank you all. I saw that code chunk on a web site under VB samples and I thought there was something in VB that I couldn't figure out. You are right. It is some other language.