Object References

[pr@paulrichards.me.uk]

I am trying to use VB 2005 Express Edition to implement a neural
network.

What I want is to create a class which can have as a variable a
collection of references to objects of the same type. Obviously, I
don't want to hold the object itself; just a reference to it.

Can this be done?

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RE: Object References

Paul,

A collection of objects always just holds references to the objects.

Kerry Moorman


"pr@paulrichard s.me.uk" wrote:

I am trying to use VB 2005 Express Edition to implement a neural
network.
>
What I want is to create a class which can have as a variable a
collection of references to objects of the same type. Obviously, I
don't want to hold the object itself; just a reference to it.
>
Can this be done?
>
>

[Mattias Sjögren]

Re: Object References

>Can this be done?

Sure, that's the behavior you get as long as you work with reference
types (classes etc).


Mattias

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Re: Object References

<pr@paulrichard s.me.ukschrieb:

What I want is to create a class which can have as a variable a
collection of references to objects of the same type. Obviously, I
don't want to hold the object itself; just a reference to it.

'System.Collect ions.Generic.Li st(Of T)' or
'System.Collect ions.ObjectMode l.Collection(Of T)'.

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