Adds the elements of the specified collection to the end of the
List.
Namespace: System.Collections.Generic
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
'Usage
Dim instance As List(Of T)
Dim collection As IEnumerable(Of T)
instance.AddRange(collection)
'Declaration
Public Sub AddRange ( _
collection As IEnumerable(Of T) _
)
public void AddRange (
IEnumerable<T> collection
)
Parameters
- collection
The collection whose elements should be added to the end of the List. The collection itself cannot be a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic), but it can contain elements that are a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic), if type T is a reference type.
The order of the elements in the collection is preserved in the List.
If the new Count (the current Count plus the size of the collection) will be greater than Capacity, the capacity of the List is increased by automatically reallocating the internal array to accommodate the new elements, and the existing elements are copied to the new array before the new elements are added.
If the List can accommodate the new elements without increasing the Capacity, this method is an O(n) operation, where n is the number of elements to be added. If the capacity needs to be increased to accommodate the new elements, this method becomes an O(n + m) operation, where n is the number of elements to be added and m is Count.
The following code example demonstrates the AddRange method and various other methods of the List class that act on ranges. An array of strings is created and passed to the constructor, populating the list with the elements of the array. The AddRange method is called, with the list as its argument. The result is that the current elements of the list are added to the end of the list, duplicating all the elements.
Imports System
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Public Class Example
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim input() As String = { "Brachiosaurus", _
"Amargasaurus", _
"Mamenchisaurus" }
Dim dinosaurs As New List(Of String)(input)
Console.WriteLine(vbLf & "Capacity: {0}", dinosaurs.Capacity)
Console.WriteLine()
For Each dinosaur As String In dinosaurs
Console.WriteLine(dinosaur)
Next
Console.WriteLine(vbLf & "AddRange(dinosaurs)")
dinosaurs.AddRange(dinosaurs)
Console.WriteLine()
For Each dinosaur As String In dinosaurs
Console.WriteLine(dinosaur)
Next
Console.WriteLine(vbLf & "RemoveRange(2, 2)")
dinosaurs.RemoveRange(2, 2)
Console.WriteLine()
For Each dinosaur As String In dinosaurs
Console.WriteLine(dinosaur)
Next
input = New String() { "Tyrannosaurus", _
"Deinonychus", _
"Velociraptor" }
Console.WriteLine(vbLf & "InsertRange(3, input)")
dinosaurs.InsertRange(3, input)
Console.WriteLine()
For Each dinosaur As String In dinosaurs
Console.WriteLine(dinosaur)
Next
Console.WriteLine(vbLf & "output = dinosaurs.GetRange(2, 3).ToArray")
Dim output() As String = dinosaurs.GetRange(2, 3).ToArray()
Console.WriteLine()
For Each dinosaur As String In output
Console.WriteLine(dinosaur)
Next
End Sub
End Class
' This code example produces the following output:
'
'Capacity: 3
'
'Brachiosaurus
'Amargasaurus
'Mamenchisaurus
'
'AddRange(dinosaurs)
'
'Brachiosaurus
'Amargasaurus
'Mamenchisaurus
'Brachiosaurus
'Amargasaurus
'Mamenchisaurus
'
'RemoveRange(2, 2)
'
'Brachiosaurus
'Amargasaurus
'Amargasaurus
'Mamenchisaurus
'
'InsertRange(3, input)
'
'Brachiosaurus
'Amargasaurus
'Amargasaurus
'Tyrannosaurus
'Deinonychus
'Velociraptor
'Mamenchisaurus
'
'output = dinosaurs.GetRange(2, 3).ToArray
'
'Amargasaurus
'Tyrannosaurus
'Deinonychus
Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows CE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.
.NET Framework
Supported in: 3.0, 2.0
.NET Compact Framework
Supported in: 2.0
XNA Framework
Supported in: 1.0
