Summary

This chapter has given you a glimpse at the incredible power that a developer can wield using generics. Generics are a tool that allow developers to maximize performance and code reuse as well as create a robust object-oriented programming environment by not having to resort to repetitive typecasting and the overuse of parameters of type System.Object. Using generics, developers can defer the specification of data types until such time as their class is instantiated, but still reap the benefits of strong data types. After reading this chapter, you should be able to continue learning all that C# 2.0 has to offer and feel comfortable when you see generics being used by the .NET Framework and in your own sample code.