Summary

Serves as the base interface for implementing collection classes. Defines size, enumeration, and synchronization methods for all system collections.

BG In a future release of the Microsoft .NET Framework, we will be adding a new generic collections namespace that is similar to the existing one. We will not replace the current classes, but the new generic classes should provide most of the interesting functionality from what we did in V1. We have made a few changes to the generic collection interfaces, but they are small. The generic collections will implement our non-generic interfaces as well; as long as you are using our V1 interfaces in your public API's, you will be able to consume and return generic collections in the future if ...

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