Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

Chapter 25. Generics

...our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows.

—Havelock Ellis

Born under one law, to another bound.

—Lord Brooke

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn: To create generic methods that perform identical tasks on arguments of different types. To create a generic Stack class that can be used to store objects of any class or interface type. To understand how to overload generic methods with non-generic methods or with other generic methods. To understand the New constraint of a type parameter. To apply multiple constraints to a type parameter. The relationship between generics and inheritance. ...