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Add Support for "Set" Collections to .NET

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An implementation of "Sets" for .NET
<html dir="LTR"><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="vs_targetSchema" content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5"><title>Set.Union Method (ISet, ISet)</title><xml></xml><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="MSDN.css"></head><body id="bodyID" class="dtBODY"><div id="nsbanner"><div id="bannerrow1"><table class="bannerparthead" cellspacing="0"><tr id="hdr"><td class="runninghead">"Set" Collections Library for .NET</td><td class="product"></td></tr></table></div><div id="TitleRow"><h1 class="dtH1">Set.Union Method (ISet, ISet)</h1></div></div><div id="nstext"><p>
            Performs a "union" of two sets, where all the elements
            in both are present.  That is, the element is included if it is in either <code>a</code> or <code>b</code>.
            The return value is a <code>Clone()</code> of one of the sets (<code>a</code> if it is not <code>null</code>) with elements of the other set
            added in.  Neither of the input sets is modified by the operation.
            </p><div class="syntax"><span class="lang">[Visual Basic]</span><br>Overloads Public Shared Function Union( _<br>   ByVal <i>a</i> As <a href="Iesi.Collections.ISet.html">ISet</a>, _<br>   ByVal <i>b</i> As <a href="Iesi.Collections.ISet.html">ISet</a> _<br>) As <a href="Iesi.Collections.ISet.html">ISet</a></div><div class="syntax"><span class="lang">[C#]</span><br>public static <a href="Iesi.Collections.ISet.html">ISet</a> Union(<br>   <a href="Iesi.Collections.ISet.html">ISet</a> <i>a</i>,<br>   <a href="Iesi.Collections.ISet.html">ISet</a> <i>b</i><br>);</div><h4 class="dtH4">Parameters</h4><dl><dt><i>a</i></dt><dd>A set of elements.</dd><dt><i>b</i></dt><dd>A set of elements.</dd></dl><h4 class="dtH4">Return Value</h4><p>A set containing the union of the input sets.  <code>null</code> if both sets are <code>null</code>.</p><h4 class="dtH4">See Also</h4><p><a href="Iesi.Collections.Set.html">Set Class</a> | <a href="Iesi.Collections.html">Iesi.Collections Namespace</a> | <a href="Iesi.Collections.Set.Union_overloads.html">Set.Union Overload List</a></p><object type="application/x-oleobject" classid="clsid:1e2a7bd0-dab9-11d0-b93a-00c04fc99f9e" viewastext="true" style="display: none;"><param name="Keyword" value="Union method"><param name="Keyword" value="Union method, Set class"><param name="Keyword" value="Set.Union method"></object><hr><div id="footer"><p></p><p>Generated from assembly Iesi.Collections [1.0.0.1]</p></div></div></body></html>

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