Visual Studio Magazine

Generic Covariance and Contravariance in C# 4.0

Covariance and contravariance are precise terms that describe which conversions are safe on parameters and return types. Learn practical definitions for those terms, what new constructs will be ...
InfoWorld

How to work with generics in C#

C# is a strongly typed language. This implies that when using C# you should declare a type prior to storing data in it. Though this type safety helps enforce safety and interoperability between ...
Visual Studio Magazine

C# 11 Features Now Previewing in Visual Studio: Generic Attributes and More

A new "What's new in C# 11" post explains new features available in preview with the latest tooling bits: NET 6.0.200 SDK or Visual Studio 2022 v17.1. First on tap is generic attributes support, or ...
Computerworld

Generic pagination in C# for .NET WebAPI

“I love writing pagination code!”…said no one ever. After what seems like the millionth time writing a list pager from scratch, we’ve come up with a handy generic class to plug in for .NET API ...
Ars Technica

Can you infer just some generic type arguments in C#?

public static Tout MyGenericMethod<Tin, Tout>(Tin obj) { Tout r = something; return r; } public static bool CallingMethod() { return MyGenericMethod<, bool>("Tin can be inferred to be string."); } Any ...