Generics allow us to create type safe collections with no boxing and un-boxing overhead. It is a concept that allows us to achieve parametric polymorphism. C# is a strongly typed language, i.e., objects in C# should have a type to holding any value. This enforces language interoperability and security but restricts the programmer to specify the …
According to MSDN, “Generics introduce to the .NET Framework the concept of type parameters, which make it possible to design classes and methods that defer the specification of one or more types until the class or method is declared and instantiated by client code.” By using Generics, classes and methods can work uniformly on …
Collection Interfaces The .NET Framework provides two sets of standard interfaces for enumerating and comparing collections: the traditional (nontype-safe) and the new generic type-safe collections. Here we focuses only on the new, type-safe collection interfaces as these are far preferable. You can declare an ICollection of any specific type by substituting the actual …