Object References

[pr]

I am trying to use VB 2005 Express Edition to implement a neural
network.

What I want is to create a class which can have as a variable a
collection of references to objects of the same type. Obviously, I
don't want to hold the object itself; just a reference to it.

Can this be done?

 

[Guest]

Paul,

A collection of objects always just holds references to the objects.

Kerry Moorman

 

[Mattias Sjögren]

Can this be done?

Sure, that's the behavior you get as long as you work with reference
types (classes etc).


Mattias

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

What I want is to create a class which can have as a variable a
collection of references to objects of the same type. Obviously, I
don't want to hold the object itself; just a reference to it.

'System.Collections.Generic.List(Of T)' or
'System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection(Of T)'.