Learn how to build unusually shaped triangular and sparse arrays, and arrays with non-zero lower bounds that are much faster than those provided by the standard .NET Array class.
by Rod Stephens
February 20, 2008
was surfing the web the other day, looking for Visual Basic questions to answer, when I stumbled across an old FAQ that explained why Visual Basic no longer has arrays with non-zero lower bounds. I don't really buy the explanation given by Paul Vick at (it seems like the needs of the none outweighing the needs of the many to me) but it did start me thinking about arrays.
Visual Studio provides arrays of any data type. You can make one-, two-, and higher-dimensional arrays of integers, strings, objects, structures, or whatever. But there are a couple of useful kinds of arrays that Visual Studio doesn't provide. This article explains how you can implement three of these: triangular arrays, sparse arrays, and arrays with non-zero lower bounds.
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was surfing the web the other day, looking for Visual Basic questions to answer, when I stumbled across an old FAQ that explained why Visual Basic no longer has arrays with non-zero lower bounds. I don't really buy the 
