Are there any reasons to use Hashtables when there is a generic Dictionary class? If so, what are they?
Are there any reasons to use Hashtables when there is a generic Dictionary class?
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Are there any reasons to use Hashtables when there is a generic Dictionary class? If so, what are they?
Not unless you’re using .NET 1.1 or the micro-framework, no. Ditto the other pre-generics collections, with the slight exception of some of the classes in
System.Collections.Specializednamespace, which don’t all have direct generic replacements.