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Thursday, June 01, 2006 6:44 PM

More on generic variance

In my entry on generic variance in the CLR , I said that you can’t convert a List<String> to a List<Object>, or even an IEnumerable<String> to IEnumerable<Object>. I should point out however that the real-world scenarios where
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:00 PM

Generic type parameter variance in the CLR

When people start using C# generics for the first time, they are sometimes surprised that they can’t convert between related generic instances. For example, since you can convert a string to an object , shouldn’t you also be able to convert a List <string>
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