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CaseInsensitiveHashCodeProvider Class

NOTE: This API is now obsolete. The non-obsolete alternative is StringComparer.

Supplies a hash code for an object, using a hashing algorithm that ignores the case of strings.

Namespace:  System.Collections
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

'Declaration
<SerializableAttribute> _
<ObsoleteAttribute("Please use StringComparer instead.")> _
<ComVisibleAttribute(True)> _
Public Class CaseInsensitiveHashCodeProvider _
	Implements IHashCodeProvider
'Usage
Dim instance As CaseInsensitiveHashCodeProvider

CaseInsensitiveHashCodeProvider implements the IHashCodeProvider interface supporting case-insensitive comparisons on strings, just as CaseInsensitiveComparer implements the IComparer interface supporting case-insensitive comparisons on strings.

The objects used as keys by a Hashtable are required to override the Object.GetHashCode method (or the IHashCodeProvider interface) and the Object.Equals method (or the IComparer interface). The implementation of both methods or interfaces must handle case sensitivity the same way; otherwise, the Hashtable might behave incorrectly. For example, when creating a Hashtable, you must use this class with the CaseInsensitiveComparer class or any case-insensitive IComparer implementation.

The following code example creates a case-sensitive hash table and a case-insensitive hash table and demonstrates the difference in their behavior, even if both contain the same elements.

Imports System
Imports System.Collections
Imports System.Globalization

Public Class SamplesHashtable

   Public Shared Sub Main()

      ' Create a Hashtable using the default hash code provider and the default comparer. 
      Dim myHT1 As New Hashtable()
      myHT1.Add("FIRST", "Hello")
      myHT1.Add("SECOND", "World")
      myHT1.Add("THIRD", "!")

      ' Create a Hashtable using a case-insensitive code provider and a case-insensitive comparer, 
      ' based on the culture of the current thread. 
      Dim myHT2 As New Hashtable(New CaseInsensitiveHashCodeProvider(), New CaseInsensitiveComparer())
      myHT2.Add("FIRST", "Hello")
      myHT2.Add("SECOND", "World")
      myHT2.Add("THIRD", "!")

      ' Create a Hashtable using a case-insensitive code provider and a case-insensitive comparer, 
      ' based on the InvariantCulture. 
      Dim myHT3 As New Hashtable(CaseInsensitiveHashCodeProvider.DefaultInvariant, CaseInsensitiveComparer.DefaultInvariant)
      myHT3.Add("FIRST", "Hello")
      myHT3.Add("SECOND", "World")
      myHT3.Add("THIRD", "!")

      ' Create a Hashtable using a case-insensitive code provider and a case-insensitive comparer, 
      ' based on the Turkish culture (tr-TR), where "I" is not the uppercase version of "i". 
      Dim myCul As New CultureInfo("tr-TR")
      Dim myHT4 As New Hashtable(New CaseInsensitiveHashCodeProvider(myCul), New CaseInsensitiveComparer(myCul))
      myHT4.Add("FIRST", "Hello")
      myHT4.Add("SECOND", "World")
      myHT4.Add("THIRD", "!")

      ' Search for a key in each hashtable.
      Console.WriteLine("first is in myHT1: {0}", myHT1.ContainsKey("first"))
      Console.WriteLine("first is in myHT2: {0}", myHT2.ContainsKey("first"))
      Console.WriteLine("first is in myHT3: {0}", myHT3.ContainsKey("first"))
      Console.WriteLine("first is in myHT4: {0}", myHT4.ContainsKey("first"))

   End Sub 'Main 

End Class 'SamplesHashtable


'This code produces the following output.  Results vary depending on the system's culture settings. 

'first is in myHT1: False 
'first is in myHT2: True 
'first is in myHT3: True 
'first is in myHT4: False

System.Object
  System.Collections.CaseInsensitiveHashCodeProvider

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

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The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 1.1, 1.0
Obsolete (compiler warning) in 3.5
Obsolete (compiler warning) in 3.5 SP1
Obsolete (compiler warning) in 3.0
Obsolete (compiler warning) in 3.0 SP1
Obsolete (compiler warning) in 3.0 SP2
Obsolete (compiler warning) in 2.0
Obsolete (compiler warning) in 2.0 SP1
Obsolete (compiler warning) in 2.0 SP2

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 1.0
Obsolete (compiler warning) in 3.5
Obsolete (compiler warning) in 2.0

XNA Framework

Obsolete (compiler warning) in 3.0
Obsolete (compiler warning) in 2.0
Obsolete (compiler warning) in 1.0
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