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ArrayList vs List and IList

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  10 months ago

  by mshahin

  Shahinur Islam

  Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Joined 11 months ago
  When we use arraylist rather than Listor IList? whats the Facilities of ArrayList or list and IList. Please Reply me as soon as possible.
  Post was edited on 24/01/2009 05:13:49 Report abuse
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  9 months ago

  by konikula

  Matej Kasper

  Trutnov, Czech Republic

  Joined 3 years ago
  I don't remember that clever words from msdn, but it was like "using of Generic.List or List is recommended, while using of ArrayList should be limited". In my words: I am still replacing all ArrayLists in my [support library](http://quilt.ic.cz/tmp/upl/Soft.htm#support) with generic Lists - just because they don't require CType and such extra code monsters, but also because of that msdn article I read. But - sometimes **just from sentiment **I let there be an arraylist. Probably only place where to use ArrayList very in very legitimate way, is when you need to store list of arrays of different elementtype... then would usage of arraylist helped u later to understand code. But for us, old dogs of ArrayList ;)) this is not possible - we are used to expect anything in arrayList.
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