Summary

Generics will significantly transform C# 1.0 coding style. In virtually all cases in which programmers used object within C# 1.0 code, generics would be a better choice in C# 2.0 to the extent that object should act as a flag for a possible generics implementation. The increased type safety, cast avoidance, and reduction of code bloat offer significant improvements. Similarly, where code traditionally used the System.Collections namespace, System.Collections.Generics should be selected instead.

The next chapter looks at one of the most pervasive generic namespaces, System.Collections.Generic. This namespace is composed almost exclusively of generic types. It provides clear examples of how some types that originally used objects were then converted to use generics.