What is Generic in C# ?
Generic means not specific to particular data type. C# allows you to define generic generic classes, interfaces, abstract classes, properties, events, delegates and operators using the type parameter and without specific data types. A type parameter is a placeholder for a particular type specified when creating an instance of the generic type.
A generic type is declared by specifying a type parameter in angle brackets after type name, e.g TypeName<T> where T is a type parameter.
Below is the example where we are declaring class with generic type. Here KeyValue class will have string type constant for key property and generic type T as for Value property.
Now we will see how can we Instantiate generics in C#.
In the Above example we have instantiated List with Type as KeyValue class which is having type both as string. Then we have added some values into the list by instantiating KeyValue type anonymously. After that we are iterating through kv list and printing the values. Below is the output of the above code.
We can put any type instead of generic type while instantiating which makes it more reusable.
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अव्यक्ताद्व्यक्तय: सर्वा: प्रभवन्त्यहरागमे |
रात्र्यागमे प्रलीयन्ते तत्रैवाव्यक्तसञ्ज्ञके || 18||
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rātryāgame pralīyante tatraivāvyakta-sanjñake
BG 8.18: At the advent of Brahma’s day, all living beings emanate from the unmanifest source. And at the fall of his night, all embodied beings again merge into their unmanifest source.
