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Betsy Camel
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Oct 03, 2005 02:58:00
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HI
Can u tell me the difference between the Map & dictionary. I have searched most of the forums.
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It's the same thing - a data structure that lets you store values associated with keys.
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Oct 03, 2005 12:27:00
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Originally posted by Betsy Camel:
...I have searched most of the forums.
The place to look is the
API
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Map is an interface, and Dictionary is a class. (Hashtable is a subclass of Dictionary and also implements Map.)
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