C# for Programmers, Second Edition

25. Generics

...our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows.

—Havelock Ellis

Born under one law, to another bound.

—Lord Brooke

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn:

• To create generic methods that perform identical tasks on arguments of different types.

• To create a generic Stack class that can be used to store objects of any class or interface type.

• To understand how to overload generic methods with non-generic methods or with other generic methods.

• To understand the new() constraint of a type parameter.

• To apply multiple constraints to a type parameter.

• The relationship between generics and ...