Imports System
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Collections.ObjectModel
' This class represents a very simple keyed list of OrderItems,
' inheriting most of its behavior from the KeyedCollection and
' Collection classes. The immediate base class is the constructed
' type KeyedCollection(Of Integer, OrderItem). When you inherit
' from KeyedCollection, the second generic type argument is the
' type that you want to store in the collection -- in this case
' OrderItem. The first generic argument is the type that you want
' to use as a key. Its values must be calculated from OrderItem;
' in this case it is the Integer field PartNumber, so SimpleOrder
' inherits KeyedCollection(Of Integer, OrderItem).
'
Public Class SimpleOrder
Inherits KeyedCollection(Of Integer, OrderItem)
' The parameterless constructor of the base class creates a
' KeyedCollection with an internal dictionary. For this code
' example, no other constructors are exposed.
'
Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()
End Sub
' This is the only method that absolutely must be overridden,
' because without it the KeyedCollection cannot extract the
' keys from the items. The input parameter type is the
' second generic type argument, in this case OrderItem, and
' the return value type is the first generic type argument,
' in this case Integer.
'
Protected Overrides Function GetKeyForItem( _
ByVal item As OrderItem) As Integer
' In this example, the key is the part number.
Return item.PartNumber
End Function
End Class
Public Class Demo
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim weekly As New SimpleOrder()
' The Add method, inherited from Collection, takes OrderItem.
'
weekly.Add(New OrderItem(110072674, "Widget", 400, 45.17))
weekly.Add(New OrderItem(110072675, "Sprocket", 27, 5.3))
weekly.Add(New OrderItem(101030411, "Motor", 10, 237.5))
weekly.Add(New OrderItem(110072684, "Gear", 175, 5.17))
Display(weekly)
' The Contains method of KeyedCollection takes TKey.
'
Console.WriteLine(vbLf & "Contains(101030411): {0}", _
weekly.Contains(101030411))
' The default Item property of KeyedCollection takes the key
' type, Integer.
'
Console.WriteLine(vbLf & "weekly(101030411).Description: {0}", _
weekly(101030411).Description)
' The Remove method of KeyedCollection takes a key.
'
Console.WriteLine(vbLf & "Remove(101030411)")
weekly.Remove(101030411)
Display(weekly)
' The Insert method, inherited from Collection, takes an
' index and an OrderItem.
'
Console.WriteLine(vbLf & "Insert(2, New OrderItem(...))")
weekly.Insert(2, New OrderItem(111033401, "Nut", 10, .5))
Display(weekly)
' The default Item property is overloaded. One overload comes
' from KeyedCollection(Of Integer, OrderItem); that overload
' is read-only, and takes Integer because it retrieves by key.
' The other overload comes from Collection(Of OrderItem), the
' base class of KeyedCollection(Of Integer, OrderItem); it
' retrieves by index, so it also takes an Integer. The compiler
' uses the most-derived overload, from KeyedCollection, so the
' only way to access SimpleOrder by index is to cast it to
' Collection(Of OrderItem). Otherwise the index is interpreted
' as a key, and KeyNotFoundException is thrown.
'
Dim coweekly As Collection(Of OrderItem) = weekly
Console.WriteLine(vbLf & "coweekly(2).Description: {0}", _
coweekly(2).Description)
Console.WriteLine(vbLf & "coweekly(2) = New OrderItem(...)")
coweekly(2) = New OrderItem(127700026, "Crank", 27, 5.98)
Dim temp As OrderItem = coweekly(2)
' The IndexOf method, inherited from Collection(Of OrderItem),
' takes an OrderItem instead of a key.
'
Console.WriteLine(vbLf & "IndexOf(temp): {0}", _
weekly.IndexOf(temp))
' The inherited Remove method also takes an OrderItem.
'
Console.WriteLine(vbLf & "Remove(temp)")
weekly.Remove(temp)
Display(weekly)
Console.WriteLine(vbLf & "RemoveAt(0)")
weekly.RemoveAt(0)
Display(weekly)
End Sub
Private Shared Sub Display(ByVal order As SimpleOrder)
Console.WriteLine()
For Each item As OrderItem In order
Console.WriteLine(item)
Next item
End Sub
End Class
' This class represents a simple line item in an order. All the
' values are immutable except quantity.
'
Public Class OrderItem
Public ReadOnly PartNumber As Integer
Public ReadOnly Description As String
Public ReadOnly UnitPrice As Double
Private _quantity As Integer = 0
Public Sub New(ByVal partNumber As Integer, _
ByVal description As String, _
ByVal quantity As Integer, _
ByVal unitPrice As Double)
Me.PartNumber = partNumber
Me.Description = description
Me.Quantity = quantity
Me.UnitPrice = unitPrice
End Sub 'New
Public Property Quantity() As Integer
Get
Return _quantity
End Get
Set
If value < 0 Then
Throw New ArgumentException("Quantity cannot be negative.")
End If
_quantity = value
End Set
End Property
Public Overrides Function ToString() As String
Return String.Format( _
"{0,9} {1,6} {2,-12} at {3,8:#,###.00} = {4,10:###,###.00}", _
PartNumber, _quantity, Description, UnitPrice, _
UnitPrice * _quantity)
End Function
End Class
' This code example produces the following output:
'
'110072674 400 Widget at 45.17 = 18,068.00
'110072675 27 Sprocket at 5.30 = 143.10
'101030411 10 Motor at 237.50 = 2,375.00
'110072684 175 Gear at 5.17 = 904.75
'
'Contains(101030411): True
'
'weekly(101030411).Description: Motor
'
'Remove(101030411)
'
'110072674 400 Widget at 45.17 = 18,068.00
'110072675 27 Sprocket at 5.30 = 143.10
'110072684 175 Gear at 5.17 = 904.75
'
'Insert(2, New OrderItem(...))
'
'110072674 400 Widget at 45.17 = 18,068.00
'110072675 27 Sprocket at 5.30 = 143.10
'111033401 10 Nut at .50 = 5.00
'110072684 175 Gear at 5.17 = 904.75
'
'coweekly(2).Description: Nut
'
'coweekly(2) = New OrderItem(...)
'
'IndexOf(temp): 2
'
'Remove(temp)
'
'110072674 400 Widget at 45.17 = 18,068.00
'110072675 27 Sprocket at 5.30 = 143.10
'110072684 175 Gear at 5.17 = 904.75
'
'RemoveAt(0)
'
'110072675 27 Sprocket at 5.30 = 143.10
'110072684 175 Gear at 5.17 = 904.75