C# 4.0 Unleashed

Using Generic Types

In our discussion about generic types, you learned how a generic type is used repeatedly. Let’s concentrate on the phonebook example a bit more:

In the preceding code, we’re making a constructed generic type by substituting the TKey type parameter for string and the TValue type parameter for int. As you expect from a great development environment, Visual Studio provides IntelliSense when supplying types for generic type parameters, as shown in Figure 15.9.

Figure 15.9. Creating a constructed generic type with help from Visual Studio.

Behind the scenes, the type parameterization specified while creating a constructed generic ...