I need to maintain a roster of connected clients that are very shortlived and frequently go up and down. Due to the potential number of clients I need a collection that supports
I was very impressed by the Channel9 interview with Peter Sestoft:
channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Peter-Sestoft-C5-Generic-Collection-Library-for-C-and-CLI/
He is a professor at the Copenhagen IT University who helped to create the The C5 Generic Collection Library:
www.itu.dk/research/c5/
It might be overkill or it might be just the speedy collection you were looking for ...
hth,
-Mike