So, two questions: Why do we observe this weird behaviour? What keeps us from comparing the values of generic types which are known to be IComparable? Doesn't it somehow defeat the …

A great example of when this would be useful is generic serialization with wildly varying types. If the object being passed in is a string, why do the extra work?

I think the problem with this is that if you're using this generic method to say, convert a Database object from DbNull to Int and it returns default (T) where T is an int, it'll return 0. If this number …

Feb 11, 2015 · Why? Because under the hood, the compiler will go away and create a new type (sometimes called a closed generic type) for each different usage of the "open" generic type. …

Is there a clean method of mocking a class with generic parameters? Say I have to mock a class Foo<T> which I need to pass into a method that expects a Foo<Bar>. I can do the …

Apr 30, 2014 · Generic is the opposite of specific. Generic and specific refer to the identification of a fact. Specific means a fact that has been specified. If you ask for (specify) a pain reliever, …

May 31, 2012 · Reading this, I learned it was possible to allow a method to accept parameters of multiple types by making it a generic method. In the example, the following code is used with a …

Jul 26, 2014 · One last thing: If you're looking for a generic method with a generic parameter, such as Method<T>(T, T[]), you'll have to find a Type which is a generic parameter …

Aug 4, 2010 · What you want to do is (safely) "pass" the type of the generic type parameter up from the concerete class to the superclass. If you allow yourself to think of the class type as …

Apr 13, 2010 · 107 Implementing a generic OrderedDictionary isn't terribly difficult, but it's unnecessarily time consuming and frankly this class is a huge oversight on Microsoft's part. …