Re: Hashtables

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From: Jon Skeet [C# MVP] (skeet_at_pobox.com)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 03:04:19 +0100

Brandon Owensby <123@abc.com> wrote:
> Thanks alot!! To make sure I understand what I'm suppose to get from
> that...its saying that if I have a hashtable I can use an object
> defined by the instance as the hashkey for that hashtable....I just
> shouldn't store the hash key in database or anything. Correct?

You shouldn't store the hash *code* in a database or anything like
that. You can store the key as (say) a string and then recreate the
hashtable later, just don't rely on it having the same hash code that
it did before. 

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