Understanding how to use collections properly is a vital part in writing effective C# applications. In this course, Advanced C# Collections, you’ll learn how to use the full range of Microsoft collections and understand how to ensure collection elements are unique using sets, along with customizing dictionary key lookup and sorting of elements. First, you’ll develop an understanding of the principles of collection scalability, which is important to ensure performance stays acceptable when dealing with very large collections. Then, you’ll discover how to make your code around collections more robust by using collection interfaces to decouple code, and read-only and immutable collections to protect your data. Finally, you’ll delve into using collections in a multi-threaded scenario using the concurrent collections. By the end of this course, you’ll have the knowledge needed to effectively choose the most appropriate collection for any reasonable situation, and leverage that collection following good practices.
Author Name: Simon Robinson
Author Description:
Simon Robinson first cut his developer teeth in the early 1980s writing a scheduling system in BBC Basic(!) for his local college. Since then, his programming career has spanned industries ranging from academic research to telecoms to finance, and many computer languages such as C++, C# and Python, as well as writing front-end and back-end code for Windows and Web. He believes knowledge is to be shared, and has written or co-written more than a dozen books for professional programmers, includin… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Arrays, Lists, and Collection Equality
  22mins
• Collection Performance
  28mins
• Inside Dictionaries and Sorted Dictionaries
  30mins
• High-performance Modifications with Linked Lists
  28mins
• Stacks
  17mins
• Queues
  19mins
• Concurrency and Concurrent Collections
  15mins
• Merging Data with HashSets and SortedSets
  22mins
• Read-only and Immutable Collections
  19mins
• Collection Interfaces
  21mins