About interface ICollection

[Tony]

Hello!

I'm reading in book and it says the following.
"ICollectio n provides the ability to obtain the number of items in a
collection and to copy items into
a simple array type(inherits from IEnumerable)."

I have looked in interface ICollection and IEnumerable and there is no
method or property that
match in any way the last part of the statement from the book that says
"copy items into
a simple array type"

//Tony

[Marc Gravell]

Re: About interface ICollection

Well, I'm not sure why it mentions "inherits from IEnumerable", since
that doesn't add anything here - but the answer is CopyTo:

ICollection data = new int[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
int[] copy = new int[data.Count];
data.CopyTo(cop y, 0);

Of course, in .NET 2.0 and above it would be preferable to use the
genric (typed) interfaces:

ICollection<int data ...

This makes it more explicit that it expects CopyTo to operate on an
int[], rather than just an Array - and a lot of other things.

Marc

[Peter Duniho]

Re: About interface ICollection

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:24:57 -0700, Tony <johansson.ande rsson@telia.com >
wrote:

Hello!
>
I'm reading in book and it says the following.
"ICollectio n provides the ability to obtain the number of items in a
collection and to copy items into
a simple array type(inherits from IEnumerable)."
>
I have looked in interface ICollection and IEnumerable and there is no
method or property that
match in any way the last part of the statement from the book that says
"copy items into
a simple array type"

As has been the case with every other question you've posted of this
nature, it is impossible to provide any real insight as to what the text
might mean, given that we are not in possession of the text and have no
context.

That said, it seems to me that ICollection.Cop yTo() is a method that meets
the book's description exactly, at least as far as is possible to tell
from what little context we do have. :)

Pete

[Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )]

Re: About interface ICollection

On Jun 10, 3:24 am, "Tony" <johansson.ande rs...@telia.com wrote:

Hello!
>
I'm reading in book and it says the following.
"ICollectio n provides the ability to obtain the number of items in a
collection and to copy items into
a simple array type(inherits from IEnumerable)."

ICollection.Cou nt does the counting part
ICollection.Cop yTo does the copy part

I do not what CopyTo has to do with IEnumerable though.