Re: Generic Collections

Scott M. <smar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Given that in .NET 1.x, we could make a strongly-typed collection by
creating a class that inherited from CollectionBase and implementing custom
Add, Remove, and Item members that only work for a given type and that now,
with Generics we don't need to do that extra work, does it mean that to
fully implement a strongly typed Generic collection in .NET 2.0, I need
nothing more than something like this:

Public Class foo(Of T)
Inherits Generic.List(Of T)
End Class

You don't even need that. Just use List(Of T) directly in your code -
unless you're actually adding any functionality to it, why bother
creating a new class to derive from it?

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