Contains Method

Wintellect PowerCollections

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Determines if the collection contains a particular item. This default implementation iterates all of the items in the collection via GetEnumerator, testing each item against item using IComparable<T>.Equals or Object.Equals.

Namespace: Wintellect.PowerCollections
Assembly:  PowerCollections (in PowerCollections.dll)

Syntax

C#
public virtual bool Contains(
	T item
)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Overridable Function Contains ( _
	item As T _
) As Boolean
Visual C++
public:
virtual bool Contains (
	T item
)

Parameters

item
T
The item to check for in the collection.

Return Value

True if the collection contains item, false otherwise.

Remarks

You should strongly consider overriding this method to provide a more efficient implementation, or if the default equality comparison is inappropriate.

See Also

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