Generics in C#

In Scott Swigart's latest video tutorial, he focuses on the benefits of using generics in C# including faster performance, better compile-time checking, and better Intellisense support. Starting with collections, he first walks through the limitations of a traditional collection, such as the perf hit from boxing and unboxing object references stored in a collection, then uses a generic List class that doesn’t require such casting. Scott also shows the benefits of using a Dictionary in place of a Hashtable.

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