C# Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners: (22) Working with Collections

Collections are a more powerful form of arrays. In this lesson, we demonstrate an "old style" collection (pointing out its limitations), along with several of the newer, strongly typed generic collections (List and Dictionary<T1, T2>) utilizing the generics syntax.

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Series Introduction
• Mod 02: Installing Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop
• Mod 03: Creating Your First C# Program
• Mod 04: Dissecting the First C# Program You Created
• Mod 05: Quick Overview of the Visual C# Express Edition IDE
• Mod 06: Declaring Variables and Assigning Values Duration
• Mod 07: Branching with the if Decision Statement and the Conditional Operator
• Mod 08: Operators, Expressions, and Statements Duration
• Mod 09: for Iterations
• Mod 10: Creating Arrays of Values
• Mod 11: Creating and Calling Simple Overloaded Helper Methods
• Mod 12: while Iterations and Reading Data from a Text File
• Mod 13: Working with Strings
• Mod 14: Working with DateTime
• Mod 15: Understanding and Creating Classes
• Mod 16: More About Classes and Methods
• Mod 17: Working with Classes and Inheritances in the .NET Framework Class Library
• Mod 18: Understanding Namespaces and Adding References to Assemblies
• Mod 19: Understanding Scope and Utilizing Accessibility Modifiers
• Mod 20: Enumerations and the switch Decision Statement
• Mod 21: Gracefully Handling Exceptions
• Mod 22: Working with Collections
• Mod 23: Filtering and Managing Data Collections Using LINQ
• Mod 24: Understanding Event-Driven Programming
• Mod 25: Where to Go from Here