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Do you use generics? What are they good for? And what are constraints and why to use them?
Experience Level: Medior
Tags: .NETC#Performance
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Explanation
- Generics are like class templates, where you can define placeholders within a template and the consumer of the generic class can later define the placeholders himself.
- Generics allow you to write reusable code with high level of flexibility.
- Thanks to generis you don't repeat yourself.
- Generics allow you to design and write classes that are type-safe and can be used with multiple types.
- Generics help you to avoid the performance hit of boxing/unboxing.
When you define Generic class and you don't want the placeholder type T to be anything, you can define constraints that define what the type T can be.
Constraints are defined by using "where T:" keyword.
There are these constraints:
- where T: struct // Type T must be struct (value type)
- where T: class // Type T must be class
- where T: BaseClassName // Type T must be or derive from BaseClassName
- where T: IInterfaceName // Type T must be or must implement the interface IInterfaceName
- where T: new() // Type T must have a public parameterless constructor
- where T: U // Type T must be or derive from the argument supplied for U
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