Back to the Basics: List Manipulation

First in the Back to the Basics series: List Manipulation! This is probably the most boring, and tedious thing for the beginner-coder, if not done properly. Today we’ll be covering this stuff, along with a Visual Studio 2008 project so you can experiment a bit yourself.

Let’s shed some light on the structure of the application first, so you know what we’re working with:

• One central Order class. This contains all the properties related to the orders.
• One central List<Order>, containing all the Orders we have stored in our application.
• Various methods, ie. Insert, Update, Delete. These manipulate the objects in the list, in a straight-forward manner.

So, with that out of the way, there are a few things I highly recommend you read up on – it’ll make your life a lot easier!