I am writing a web based app at the moment and I am wanting to maintain a history of the persons movements around the site to enable some business logic for handling back button clicks.

I wanted to use a Stack but I did not want to let it get too out of control in memory if people take weird navigation choices around the site. So I wanted a stack that would push on the top but have a maximum limit so that when the maximum was reached the oldest items on the stack just fell out the bottom.

So I wrote the MaxStack. Hope you like it. It uses a generic linked list to implement the stack like interface.

Note its also serializable as I am storing it in session.
(Sorry about the indenting wordpress has mashed it)

MaxStack

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace MyArchitecture
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Generic stack implementation with a maximum limit
    /// When something is pushed on the last item is removed from the list
    /// </summary>
    [Serializable]
    public class MaxStack<T>
    {
        #region Fields

        private int _limit;
        private LinkedList<T> _list;
        
        #endregion

        #region Constructors

        public MaxStack(int maxSize)
        {
            _limit = maxSize;
            _list = new LinkedList<T>();
            
        }

        #endregion

        #region Public Stack Implementation

        public void Push(T value)
        {
            if (_list.Count == _limit)
            {
                _list.RemoveLast();
            }
            _list.AddFirst(value);
        }

        public T Pop()
        {
            if (_list.Count > 0)
            {
                T value = _list.First.Value;
                _list.RemoveFirst();
                return value;
            }
            else
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException("The Stack is empty");
            }

            
        }

        public T Peek()
        {
            if (_list.Count > 0)
            {
                T value = _list.First.Value;
                return value;
            }
            else
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException("The Stack is empty");
            }
            
        }

        public void Clear()
        {
            _list.Clear();
            
        }

        public int Count
        {
            get { return _list.Count; }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Checks if the top object on the stack matches the value passed in
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public bool IsTop(T value)
        {
            bool result = false;
            if (this.Count > 0)
            {
                result = Peek().Equals(value);
            }
            return result;
        }

        public bool Contains(T value)
        {
            bool result = false;
            if (this.Count > 0)
            {
                result = _list.Contains(value);
            }
            return result;
        }

	public IEnumerator GetEnumerator()
	{
            return _list.GetEnumerator();
	}

        #endregion

    }
}