Linked by Rüdiger Klaehn on Thu 5th Aug 2004 05:00 UTC
One of the most awaited features of Microsoft .NET 2.0 is generics. Generics promise to increase type safety, improve performance, reduce code duplication and eliminate unnessecary casts. The most obvious application of generics in the framework class library are the generic collections in the new System.Collections.Generic namespace. Much has been written about those, but they are not the topic of this article.
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* initializing a class dynamically: COM and sons, CORBA and sons, etc...
* runtime analysis and dynamic invocation: XTI
* template instantiation, yes, occurs at compile-time (so they are absolutely typesafe).
* instances template types CAN share common "root" type, if you need (generally you don't).