collection and generics

santosh ghundre

11y878Visual Basic .NET

what is collection and generics in detail?

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Sumit Joshi11y ago
In my openion Try one example for each to Hands-on with them.
Sumit Joshi11y ago
HI Santosh

Collections provide a more flexible way to work with groups of objects. Unlike arrays, the group of objects you work with can grow and shrink dynamically as the needs of the application change.

Generics were added to version 2.0 of the C# language and the common language runtime (CLR). Generics introduce to the .NET Framework the concept of type parameters, which make it possible to design classes and methods that defer the specification of one or more types until the class or method is declared and instantiated by client code. For example, by using a generic type parameter T you can write a single class that other client code can use without incurring the cost or risk of runtime casts or boxing operations,

For More Reference:
Collection: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ybcx56wz.aspx
Generics: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/512aeb7t.aspx

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Rajeesh Menoth11y ago
Hi,

Gnerics provides the type safe code with re-usability like as algorithm. In algorithms such as sorting, searching, comparing etc. you don’t specify what data type(s) the algorithm operates on. The algorithm can be operates with any types of data. In the same way Generics operate, you can provide different data type to Generics. For example, a sorting algorithm can operates on integer type, decimal type, string type, DateTime type etc.

Ref this : http://www.dotnet-tricks.com/Tutorial/csharp/U08E301212-Difference-between-Generics-and-Collections-with-example.html
Manas Mohapatra11y ago
Hi,

Collection classes are used for storing data and retrieve dynamically. It is present System.Collection namespace. ArrayList, HashTable, SortedList are example of Collection class.

Generics are also used storing data and retrieve dynamically but difference is once you declare generic type you can't store other data types. For instance you declare a list of strings(List) then you can't store integer in that list. It is present System.Collection.Generic. List, Dictionary are example of Generic class.

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/csharp/csharp_collections.htm

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/84c85b/using-generics-with-C-Sharp/