Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Summary

Generics are a great benefit in the .NET development with Visual Basic 2015. Generics are .NET types that can adapt their behavior to different kinds of objects without the need of defining a separate version of the type. So, you can implement a generic type to work with integers, strings, custom reference types, and any other .NET type with a single implementation. They provide several benefits, including strongly typed programming, IntelliSense support, and better performance. Generics require the Of keyword to specify the type parameter that you can manipulate in your object body.

Within Generics definition, you can implement your own custom methods both in the usual fashion and as generic methods, which still require the Of keyword ...