Tallahassee .NET User Group Meeting

vinay.ahuja — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 01:30:00 GMT

Yesterday, I spoke in Tallahassee .NET User Group's meeting. The topic was Generics in .NET 2.0. I divided my talk into 3 parts. I did feel that there was too much information to cover. I had to skip some of the content despite the fact that I still talked for 1 hr 45 minutes.

Here is the outline for the presentation:

Part I - Basic Concepts
- What is Generics?
- Need and Benefits
- Constraints
- Generic Collections
- Demo and Examples

Part II - Advanced Concepts
- Building a Custom Generic Class
- Applying Generics
- Practical Applications
- Generics Internals
- Generics and Reflection
- Generics and Serialization
- Generics and Remoting
- Comparison with C++ Templates and Java

Part III - Best Practices

In this part I covered some of the best practices from Professional .NET 2.0 Generics by Tod Golding.

Thanks to every one who came to the meeting. All of you filled my bucket with your presence. Also thanks to Jaya and Jose for inviting me to present. It was a pleasure.

The presentation slides and demo source code can be downloaded from here.

All about Generics - Resources

vinay.ahuja — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 04:19:00 GMT

Generics is a new feature of .NET 2.0 that allows you to define data structures without committing to actual data types. Here is a comprehensive list of annotated resources to get started:

Articles
This one is a detailed article on Generics by Juval Lowy.
An Introduction to C# Generics - Juval Lowy

All you wanted to ask about Generics.
Generics FAQ: Fundamentals

These two articles are brief and to the point and cover most of the generics concepts.
MSDN - Introducing Generics in the CLR – Jason Clark
More on Generics in the CLR – Jason Clark

If you want to know how generics was designed, what decisions were made and why, look at this.
Design and Implementation of Generics for the .NET Common Language Runtime, Microsoft Research Cambridge UK

Looking for ideas to use generics in your applications. Look at articles on Codeproject.com.
Generics Articles on Codeproject.com

.NET Rocks Shows
Need something interactive to listen to, download and play in your car.
.NET Rocks Show - Juval Lowy on Generics
.NET Rocks Show - Kathleen Dollard Talks Generic

Reference
MSDN - Generics Home

Webcasts on Generics
MSDN Webcast: Live from PDC: Generics in Visual Basic (Level 200), September 14th 2005
MSDN Webcast- Geek Speak- Generics- Why do you care- (Level 200), May 4th 2005

Books
Professional .NET 2.0 Generics (Programmer to Programmer) by Tod Golding
Programming .NET Components, 2nd Edition – Juval Lowy, O’Reilly Publications

Any more resources, please feel free to add.
Happy Generic Programming!

Vinay Ahuja : .NET Generics

Tallahassee .NET User Group Meeting

All about Generics - Resources