Someone suggested to me that VB.NET Whidbey didn't have support for 'Generic Methods', so I quickly wrote a bit of sample code to check (yes, it does support Generic Methods) and I thought I'd post that test code for your amusement.
Public Class GenericMethodSample
Public Sub Swap(Of T)(ByRef i As T, ByRef j As T)
Dim temp As T
temp = j
j = i
i = temp
End Sub
End Class
Public Class Sample
Public Sub TestSwap()
Dim i, j As Integer
i = 3
j = 12
Debug.WriteLine(i)
Debug.WriteLine(j)
Debug.WriteLine("-------")
Dim gm As New GenericMethodSample
gm.Swap(Of Integer)(i, j)
Debug.WriteLine(i)
Debug.WriteLine(j)
End Sub
End Class
If you need the 'blow-by-blow' explanation of that code... the key lines to notice are;
Public Sub Swap(Of T)(ByRef i As T, ByRef j As T)
Which declares a "Generic Method", which is then strongly typed at runtime via code like this;
gm.Swap(Of Integer)(i, j)
[Update]: Paul Vick points out that (Of Integer) can be skipped on the call, making it just
gm.Swap(i, j)
because the compiler will infer the correct type argument.
