Chapter 14. Advanced Array Processing

In this chapter, you will learn the following:

• Declaring and defining arrays

• Sorting an array

• Searching an array

• Other array properties and methods

• Arrays as objects

• Sample program using an array object

• Collections

In this chapter, you'll learn about some of the more advanced array processing features that Visual Basic .NET makes available to you. In fact, many of these features weren't available in earlier releases of Visual Basic because they're integral parts of Visual Basic .NET's Array class.

Before we can tackle these advanced features, it's important that you understand some fundamental differences in the ways that arrays can be defined in Visual Basic .NET. We'll take on that task first.