I want to create a class that inherits from CollectionBase
, but it seems that it does not support LINQ extensions!
Is it still supported? Or is there an alternative solution?
See Question&Answers more detail:osI want to create a class that inherits from CollectionBase
, but it seems that it does not support LINQ extensions!
Is it still supported? Or is there an alternative solution?
See Question&Answers more detail:osIt is still supported, but it is obsolete. You should always prefer to use the collections defined in the System.Collections.Generic
or the System.Collections.ObjectModel
namespaces, instead.
You can inherit from one of the generic collections to create your own custom, strongly-typed collection, as well. And it will have full support for LINQ, since they already implement IEnumerable<T>
.
Either List<T>
or Collection<T>
are good options for your case.
Avoid the non-generic collections like CollectionBase
, ArrayList
, and HashTable
if at all possible. There is a performance penalty to using them, and they offer few advantages (if any!) over the generic versions that were introduced in more recent versions of the framework.