ICollection.CopyTo Method

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Copies the elements of the ICollection to an Array, starting at a particular Array index.

Namespace: System.Collections
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Sub CopyTo ( _
    array As Array, _
    index As Integer _
)

void CopyTo(
    Array array,
    int index
)

array
Type: System.Array
The one-dimensional Array that is the destination of the elements copied from ICollection. The Array must have zero-based indexing.

Exception	Condition
ArgumentNullException	array is nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).
ArgumentOutOfRangeException	index is less than zero.
ArgumentException	array is multidimensional. -or- The number of elements in the source ICollection is greater than the available space from index to the end of the destination array. -or- The type of the source ICollection cannot be cast automatically to the type of the destination array.

array is nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

index is less than zero.

array is multidimensional.

-or-

The number of elements in the source ICollection is greater than the available space from index to the end of the destination array.

-or-

The type of the source ICollection cannot be cast automatically to the type of the destination array.

Silverlight for Windows Phone

CopyTo throws ArgumentException instead of InvalidCastException.

Supported in: 5, 4, 3

Supported in: Windows Phone OS 7.1, Windows Phone OS 7.0

Supported in: Xbox 360, Windows Phone OS 7.0

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.