More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#

1. Working with Generics

Without a doubt, C# 2.0 added a feature that continues to have a big impact on how you write C# code: generics. Many articles and papers have been written about the advantages of using generics over the previous versions of the C# collections classes, and those articles are correct. You gain compile-time type safety and improve your applications’ performance by using generic types rather than weakly typed collections that rely on System.Object.

Some articles and papers might lead you to believe that generics are useful only in the context of collections. That’s not true. There are many other ways to use generics. You can use them to create interfaces, event handlers, common algorithms, and more.

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