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• IComparer and Sorting Widgets

  Jan 16 2008 5:31 AM

  Back in the turn of the last century, the golden days of .NET 1.1, if you wanted to implement a type-safe custom collection your best bet was to derive from CollectionBase in the System.Collections namespace. CollectionBase was more than just an abstract base class. It was also a wrapper around an internal ArrayList. If you wanted to sort strongly-typed objects in the collection you would implement an IComparer class: Continue reading...