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Monday, November 29, 2010

How to get the scripting dictionary enumerator to use in the for each loop in visual basic

A common practice is writing VB 6.0 or VBA code to wrap the Collection object in order to create strongly type Collections.

An alternative to the collection object is the scripting.Dictionary object which you can find adding a reference to the Microsoft Scripting Runtime.

The Dictionary Object is an Hash Table, so it is preferred to the Collection object when you need to access elements in the collection by key.
In addtion it has few properties and methods that the Collection object is lacking.