IEnumerable and IEnumerator

Question

Hello What is the main difference between IEnumerable and IEnumerator? Thanks

Vulpes · Answer

IEnumerable has just one member a method called GetEnumerator which returns an IEnumerator. IEnumerator has two methods MoveNext (which returns a bool) and Reset (void) and one property Current of type object. Consequently if a collection type implements IEnumerable then there must be an IEnumerator available to iterate over the collection. You can then use the members of the IEnumerator to perform the actual enumeration. In the case of the foreach statement all this is done for you behind the scenes.