Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005: Learn Visual Basic 2005 as You Design and Develop a Complete Application

Chapter 16. Generics

When I was in high school, my family sometimes shopped at a local grocery warehouse named Fedmart. Signs on the window clearly stated that there was “no connection between Fedmart and the Federal government,” but people continued to shop there anyway. They had these small one-dollar frozen cheese pizzas that my mom would buy in bulk for me and my friends, teenage boys who didn’t care much about what went down the esophagus.

Most of the store stocked the typical grocery products, but there was one aisle near the south border of the store that only sold “generic” products. Walking into this section was like walking into a black-and-white television; all of the product labels were plain clear or white, with simple black lettering. ...