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