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Support for generics is one of the nicest features of C# and .NET. Generics allow you to create open-ended types that are converted into closed types at run time. Each unique closed type is itself a unique type. Only closed types may be instantiated. When you declare a generic type, you specify a list of type parameters in the declaration for which type arguments are given to create closed types, as in the following example:
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© 2007 Weldon W. Nash, III
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(2007). Generics. In: Accelerated C# 2008. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0338-4_11
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