Question

I have a Collection object (based on System.Collections.CollectionBase) but to access the values of objects within that collection, I have to use the index currently. Is it possible to get the values based on the name of the object within the collection?

For example, instead of…

MyCollection[0].Value

… how can I do something along the lines of:

MyCollection["Birthday"].Value

Answer 1

You could use the this[] accessor

public Item this[string name]
{
get
{
  // iterate through the elements of the collection 
  //and return the one that matches with name
}
}

Have this getter property on your MyCollectionClass