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I've never used any of the .NET generics in my work, but I understand that they are fairly popular. Does anyone have any good links or book suggestions for learning them? As a bonus; I only vaguely understand what .NET generic collections are and what they do...does anyone have any practical examples of how they might be used to greater advantage than the normal collections in .NET?
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First introduced in . NET Framework 2.0, generics are essentially a "code template" that allows developers to define type-safe data structures without committing to an actual data type.
The generic function won't be faster than any of the corresponding type-specific functions.
Generics shift the burden of type safety from you to the compiler. There is no need to write code to test for the correct data type because it is enforced at compile time. The need for type casting and the possibility of run-time errors are reduced. Better performance.
Generic is a class which allows the user to define classes and methods with the placeholder. Generics were added to version 2.0 of the C# language. The basic idea behind using Generic is to allow type (Integer, String, … etc and user-defined types) to be a parameter to methods, classes, and interfaces.
The obvious choice..
MSDN C# Generics
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