Represents a collection of strings in C#
Questions tagged [stringcollection]
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How to retrieve last item in StringCollection array
I'm trying to get the last item in string collection array with this:
scWords(0).Item(0) & "-" & scWords(0).Item(scWords(0).Count))
It keeps saying out of range

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Application Settings | System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection Only Saves One Value
In the application settings I have a setting called Locations and the type is a System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection.
I also have a textbox and a button that are supposed to add values to the StringCollection.
After entering the value…
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StringCollection editor does not store the values entered by user
I have implemented StringCollection editor in my custom control and below is the code :
[Description("extra free-form attributes on this thing.")]
[Editor(@"System.Windows.Forms.Design.StringCollectionEditor," +
"System.Design, Version=2.0.0.0,…

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How delete string from stringCollection saved in settings
I'm new in this community.
I've a problem: I follewed this How I can save controls created in run time in Windows Forms and the code work very well, but I've a problem when I want to delete a string from the stringCollection.
I used the method…

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How to generate a unique string from a string collection?
I need a way to convert a strings collection into a unique string. This means that I need to have a different string if any of the strings inside the collection has changed.
I'm working on a big solution so I may wont be able to work with some…

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Join StringCollection with commas
Usually, joining a List with commas is easy using string.Join(). However, coming across a StringCollection today, string.Join() outputs "System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection" output instead of a comma-separated string.
[TestMethod]
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Initializing a StringCollection from My.Settings to avoid null reference exception
I am specifying a System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection named MyCollection in My.Settings, and upon first use to add a string, a null reference exception is being thrown (i.e. MyCollection is Nothing).
The syntax to add a string is…
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Windows Update API CopyToCache(IStringCollection) - Specified cast is not valid
For reducing traffic on our VPN routes, I need to download the windows updates from an external server while reporting to our internal server.
So I'm doing the following:
Create an UpdateSession and Search for Updates, storing them in…

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Difference between Specialized String collection and Generic list C#
What is the difference between a Specialized String Collection and a Generic String List in C#?
And how to convert a Specialized one into a Generic one?
System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection specialized = new…

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Change sorting of StringCollection
On my current project the user can create a control that gets docked in a TableLayoutPanel. The controls name gets saved in a StringCollection and on every start of the program the controls get recreated.
I would like to implement a feature that…

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C# StringCollection in Custom Class
Given the class below, what would be the correct way to add multiple strings to the StringCollection called blob_key_col_name?
public class blob_info
{
public string column_name { get; set; }
public string blob_value { get; set; }
public…

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Serialize String-collection object for storing in session variable
In my ASP.Net application, I'm storing a string collection in a Session variable. It was working fine but now I want to change session settings from in-proc to Out Proc. Now I'm having an issue that "Non-Serializable Object Stored in Session". How…

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String Collections in Settings aren't changing their size
I have several string collections in my C# project that are stored in Settings. At the beginning of this project, I had initialized these collections to contain 20 values, all being 0s. Lately I've realised I actually need about 100 0s in each…

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How to access an indexed string from a string collection saved in settings?
I have a few arrays of strings in my settings labelled meas1, meas2, meas3 etc...
If I want to set the 6th item in each string collection to "", how would I do that? Below is my broken code of failed attempt:
for (int i = 19; i >= 0; i--)
{
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How to load assembly [Systems.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection] into Powershell
I semi understand what I'm asking and have tried to research this as best as I'm able.
I'm trying to use an object of type [Systems.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection]:
$newDBFiles = new-object…

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