5.3 Collections

The FCL provides a set of general-purpose data structures such as System.Array, ArrayList, Hashtable, Queue, Stack, BitArray, and more. Standardized design patterns using common base types and public interfaces allow consistent handling of collections throughout the FCL for both predefined and user-defined collection types (see Chapter 7).

For more information, see the following namespaces:

System.Collections
System.Collections.Specialized

An important related type in another namespace is System.Array.