Collections

C#: System.Collections.Generic namespace

Vala: Gee namespace, --pkg gee-1.0, Libgee

Rough equivalents:

System.Collections.Generic	Gee
Classes
Dictionary	HashMap
HashSet	HashSet
LinkedList	LinkedList
List	ArrayList
Queue	LinkedList, PriorityQueue
SortedDictionary	TreeMap
Stack	LinkedList
Interfaces
ICollection	Collection
IComparer	Comparable
IDictionary	Map
IEnumerable	Iterable
IEnumerator	Iterator
IList	List Queue Deque

See Gee Examples

You can access and assign Gee collection items via indexers (e.g. my_map[key] is equivalent to my_map.get (key)). Vala supports an in operator for collections: x in my_collection is equivalent to my_collection.contains (x). This operator also works with strings, even though strings are not collections.

Please note that Libgee checks for errors like the bounds for the index key with an assert, and so it won’t raise any catchable SystemException like in C#.