Professional .NET 2.0 Generics

5.10. Summary

The goal of this chapter was to explore all the syntactic variations associated with defining and consuming generic methods. As part of this effort, you looked at the rules that govern overloading and overriding generic methods. The injection of type parameters into method signatures required a closer look at how those type parameters influenced the overall signature and uniqueness of methods spanning a number of scenarios. You also saw how generic methods could be used as part of delegates. Ultimately, in the bigger picture, this chapter should have provided you good insight into the value and general applicability of generic methods.