May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1752 pages
41h 17m
English
You can find the bulk of the System.Collections.Generic namespace in the mscorlib.dll and System.dll assemblies. At the opening of this chapter, I briefly mentioned some of the core non-generic interfaces implemented by the non-generic collection classes. Not too surprisingly, the System.Collections.Generic namespace defines generic replacements for many of them.
In fact, you can find a number of the generic interfaces that extend their non-generic counterparts! This might seem odd; however, by doing so, implementing classes will also support the legacy functionally found in their non-generic siblings. For example, IEnumerable<T> extends IEnumerable. Table 10-3 documents the core generic interfaces ...