Notes on Generics and Inheritance

Generics can be used with inheritance in several ways:

A generic class can be derived from a non-generic class. For example, class object (which is not a generic class) is a direct or indirect base class of every generic class.
A generic class can be derived from another generic class. Recall that in Chapter 25, the non-generic Stack class (Fig. 25.12) inherits from the non-generic List class (Fig. 25.5). You could also create a generic Stack class by inheriting from a generic List class.
A non-generic class can be derived from a generic class. For example, you can implement a non-generic AddressList class that inherits from a generic List class and stores only Address objects.

Preface

Index

Introduction to Computers, the Internet and Visual C#

Introduction to the Visual C# 2005 Express Edition IDE

Introduction to C# Applications

Introduction to Classes and Objects

Control Statements: Part 1

Control Statements: Part 2

Methods: A Deeper Look

Arrays

Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look

Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance

Polymorphism, Interfaces & Operator Overloading

Exception Handling

Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 1

Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 2

Multithreading

Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions

Graphics and Multimedia

Files and Streams

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Database, SQL and ADO.NET

ASP.NET 2.0, Web Forms and Web Controls

Web Services

Networking: Streams-Based Sockets and Datagrams

Searching and Sorting

Data Structures

Generics

Collections

Appendix A. Operator Precedence Chart

Appendix B. Number Systems

Appendix C. Using the Visual Studio 2005 Debugger

Appendix D. ASCII Character Set

Appendix E. Unicode®

Appendix F. Introduction to XHTML: Part 1

Appendix G. Introduction to XHTML: Part 2

Appendix H. HTML/XHTML Special Characters

Appendix I. HTML/XHTML Colors

Appendix J. ATM Case Study Code

Appendix K. UML 2: Additional Diagram Types

Appendix L. Simple Types

Index