Windows::Foundation::Collections::begin / end methods don't appear to exist

Question

I'm trying to follow a baic MSDN example for FindPackages on the package manager but the example using 'begin' and 'end' in the Windows::Foundation:Collections namespace and I can't find it. There are many other methods on this namespace, just not 'begin' and 'end'.

Does anyone have any suggestions where I may be going wrong...?

The MSDN example code is at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.management.deployment.packagemanager.aspx

Answer 1

Excuse me, can you help us clarify your question, I got no "begin" and "end" string in a method name in this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.management.deployment.packagemanager.aspx

What you got in this page, but it is not in this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.foundation.collections

 

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Mike Zhang[MSFT]
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Answer 2

I was trying to follow an example showing how FindPackages could be used to obtain a list of the currently install Metro applications. Part of this example for a for_each loop to iterate over the collection and display the names of each package. I couldn't find the "begin" and "end" methods. I found the answer late yesterday. Turns out to have been a typo in my source. I was includig the header collections.h, which does exist. However I needed to include collection.h  (no 's'). The example code is now workng as expected.

Thanks

Answer 3

I'm glad to hear that you make it work now.

Have a nice day!

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Mike Zhang[MSFT]
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