how to return array from class property?

[priya_p233]

Hello, i m using vb.net (winforms) & i have written class called employee. & make object of employee on my form & accessing all the properties of emp like id, name,sal etc. i shuld access all the values...so i wrotee property for each like Public ReadOnly Property BasicSal() As Integer Get Return BS1 End Get it is good whn property values are less but as i wnt to access all salary info like HRA, Basic Sal....etc total 20 fields. So i decided to use Array....I fill all values in array in my employee class's function itself. Th problem is i wnt to access this array of all values on my forms.How to do it plz tell me. Thanks for any help in advance. --Regards priya

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[CPallini]

You can implement the property list using, for instance, a SortedList. See the following MSDN excerpt:

Imports System
Imports System.Collections
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic

Public Class SamplesSortedList

Public Shared Sub Main()
    
    ' Creates and initializes a new SortedList.
    Dim mySL As New SortedList()
    mySL.Add("one", "The")
    mySL.Add("two", "quick")
    mySL.Add("three", "brown")
    mySL.Add("four", "fox")
    
    ' Displays the SortedList.
    Console.WriteLine("The SortedList contains the following:")
    PrintKeysAndValues(mySL)
End Sub    

Public Shared Sub PrintKeysAndValues(myList As SortedList)
    Console.WriteLine(ControlChars.Tab & "-KEY-" & ControlChars.Tab & \_
       "-VALUE-")
    Dim i As Integer
    For i = 0 To myList.Count - 1
        Console.WriteLine(ControlChars.Tab & "{0}:" & ControlChars.Tab & \_
           "{1}", myList.GetKey(i), myList.GetByIndex(i))
    Next i
    Console.WriteLine()
End Sub

End Class

' This code produces the following output.
'
' The SortedList contains the following:
' -KEY- -VALUE-
' four: fox
' one: The
' three: brown
' two: quick

Hope that helps :)

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