Generics and .NET 2.0

Published 07 February 06 03:27 PM | jvast 

I gave a web cast a few weeks back on the new features of .NET 2.0 and the most asked question was around generics in .NET 2.0.  Consequently, I thought I would throw up a few code samples and pretend to be uncommonly intellegent.  Sooo ......

Then I checked MSDN to be sure I wasn't reinventing the wheel, and well, I was.  So instead of sharing some of my shiny intellect and putting together a few poor code samples.  I'll publish a few links.  Here is a page I found on MSDN that does exactly what I wanted to do:

 http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/2005/overview/language/generics/ 

And of course a link to Anders talking about Generics in .NET 2.0:

http://www.artima.com/intv/genericsP.html

In case it's not coming across clearly, generics are not a new idea, but when an enhancement to a language like this comes along, it's too good to be overlooked.  In a nutshell, with generics you write a tiny bit less code when working with collections and get improved performance in a single whack, (at least in .NET ).  Not too shabby and a very good reason to spend few minutes enlightening yourself.

 

 

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