Collection Class Tasks

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The following tasks involve using MFC's collection classes to manage lists, maps, and arrays of objects or other data types. It is recommended that you use the template-based collection classes, but the older non-template classes are supported for backward compatibility.

The following categories of tasks are listed in this topic:

• Performing General Collection-Class Tasks
  
  
• Performing Template-Based Collection-Class Tasks
  
  
• Accessing the Members of a Collection (Template-Based or Not)

What do you want to do?

General Collection-Class Tasks

• Choose a collection class
  
  
• Make a type-safe collection class
  
  
• Serialize the elements of a collection
  
  
• Use non-template collection classes
  
  
• Create a stack collection
  
  
• Create a queue collection

Template-Based Collection-Class Tasks

• Use collection classes based on templates
  
  
• Use typed-pointer collection class templates
  
  
• Implement helper functions for template-based collection classes

Accessing the Members of a Collection (Template-Based or Not)

• Access all members of a collection
  
  
• Iterate a collection
  
  
• Delete all objects in a CObject collection
  
  
• Delete all elements in an array collection class
  
  
• Delete all elements in a map collection class
  
  
• Delete all elements in a list collection class