Chapter 15. Generic Types and Methods

In This Chapter

• Life Without Generics 697

• Getting Started with Generics 699

• Declaring Generic Types 703

• Using Generic Types 708

• Performance Intermezzo 709

• Operations on Type Parameters 714

• Generic Constraints 716

• Generic Methods 732

• Co- and Contravariance 740

The second release of the .NET Framework and the CLR added support for generic types, which provide a way to parameterize types on...types. This allows for the creation of more generally applicable types while preserving static type information. In this chapter, we study the language-level and runtime-level constructs exposing this feature. Besides this, we also see how to design and build our own generic types, using rich features ...

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