Chapter 4. Generics

Introduction

Recipe 4.1.  Deciding When and Where to Use Generics

Recipe 4.2.  Understanding Generic Types

Recipe 4.3.  Getting the Type of a Generic Type

Recipe 4.4.  Replacing the ArrayList with Its Generic Counterpart

Recipe 4.5.  Replacing the Stack and Queue with Their Generic Counterparts

Recipe 4.6.  Implementing a Linked List

Recipe 4.7.  Creating a Value Type That Can Be Initialized to Null

Recipe 4.8.  Reversing the Contents of a Sorted List

Recipe 4.9.  Making Read-Only Collections the Generic Way

Recipe 4.10.  Replacing the Hashtable with Its Generic Counterpart

Recipe 4.11.  Using foreach with Generic Dictionary Types

Recipe 4.12.  Constraining Type Arguments

Recipe 4.13.  Initializing Generic Variables to Their Default Values