C# 4.0 Unleashed

List<T>

The generic counterpart of the ArrayList type is the generic List<T> type, where the type parameter T stands for, unsurprisingly, the element type. Available methods on List<T> are pretty much the same as on ArrayList. We can even easily port our ArrayList example to List<int>:

Named Parameters?

You might have noticed before in the examples of nongeneric collection types that I’ve been using named parameters sometimes. This isn’t necessary to make the preceding code compile but serves as a form of documentation for the meaning of used ...