Question 111 – What is the Constructor of Hashtable?

• We have ten overloaded Constructor. we will see some important constructors of Hashtable.
• Constructor with no parameters – Creates an empty Hashtable.
• Constructor with an Integer Parameter – Creates an empty Hashtable.
• Adding an element to the Hashtable  — hashobject.Add(Key as Object, value as Object)
• Accessing an element in the Hashtable — hashobject.Item({key})
• Deleting a Particular element — hashobject.Remove(Key as object)

Question 112 – What is an Array?

• Arrays are mechanisms that allow you to treat several items as a single collection.
• All array types are implicitly derived from System.Array, which itself is derived from System.Object. This means that all arrays are always reference types which are allocated on the managed heap. There are 4 types of arrays as below.
• Single Dimensional Array
• Mutidimensional Array
• Jagged Array
• Mixed Array

Question 113 – What is a Single-dimensional arrays?

• Single-dimensional arrays have a single dimension
• Syntax – int[] i = new int[50];

Question 114 – What is a Multidimensional arrays?

• A multidimensional array is an array with more than one dimension.
• Multidimensional arrays are also called rectangular arrays because each row will be the same length.
• Syntax : int[,] squareArray = new int[3, 2] { { 1, 2 }, { 3, 4 }, { 5, 6 } };

Question 115 – What are Jagged arrays?

• One can create multidimensional arrays with irregular dimensions, using jagged arrays.
• Jagged arrays are often called array of arrays. An element of a jagged array itself is an array.
• For example, you can define an array of names of students of a class where a name itself can be an array of three strings – first name, middle name and last name. Another example of jagged arrays is an array of integers containing another array of integers.
• Syntax : int[][] numArray = new int[][] { new int[] { 1, 3, 5 }, new int[] { 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 } };

Question 116 – What are Mixed Arrays?

Mixed arrays are a combination of multi-dimension arrays and jagged arrays.

Question 117 – What is an ArrayList?

• An ArrayList is an array that can dynamically grow and shrink.
• The arraylist is more dynamic, you can add and remove items without losing performance. With the ArrayList class, you can
• add new items to a list
• insert items inside a list
• arrange items of a list
• check the existence of an item in a list
• remove an item from the list
• inquire about the list
• destroy the list.
• using Sort on ArrayList or on Array is faster than most custom implementations. Because TrySZSort method used in the base class libraries is implemented in native code, it has been heavily optimized.
• Example : ArrayList list = new ArrayList();

Question 118 – What is the difference between Array and Array List?

Array

ArrayList

Question 119 – What is the Difference between Array and Collections?

• Array are of fixed size, yes, it can be resized using Redim and Preserve. But for a Collection we can keep adding elements to it.
• Arrays can store only one data type(Other than object array) whereas collections can hold any objects.
• Accessing the element is very simple and very fast in collections.
• Removing the element in Collection is very simple, in the case of arrays we need to shift the entire set of value up and reduce the size.

Question 120 – What is the difference between Array.Copy and Array.Clone?

Array.Copy:

• Array.copy copies all data and structure.
• performs a deep copy of the array.
• CopyTo() copies the elements from the original array to the destination array starting at the specified destination array index.
• The CopyTo() method copies the elements into another existing array.

Array.Clone

• Array.clone copies only structure not data(ie only shadow part)
• performs a shallow copy of the array.
• Clone() method makes a clone of the original array.  It returns an exact length array.
• The Clone() method returns a new array (a shallow copy) object containing all the elements in the original array.

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