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Recently I've done a bit of posting about the difficulties of properly implementing equality in VB (and DotNet in general). While most of the problems can be fixed with a standard snippet the one really hard to implement issue is GetHashCode(). The rules
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This is a bit of a follow up to a previous post we discussed how to properly implement equality in VB. Several users commented/asked that IEquatable(Of T) could be used in place of overriding Equals(). Since IEquatable(Of T) doesn't define a GetHashCode()
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Many developers want to implement equality functions for their objects. DotNet made equality a deep part of the framework and added support all the way up to System.Object with Equals and GetHashCode . In addition to the strongly enforced
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IComparable(Of T) is an interface saying "I can compare myself to other objects of the same type". And IComparer(Of T) is an interface saying "I can compare two objects of this type.". Often API's which need to perform
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One API that seems to be missing from List(Of T) is a BinaryInsert method. Especially since there is already a BinarySearch method. Binary insert is a method for inserting a value into an already sorted list. Since the list is already sorted
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