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Dan Neely6-May-20 2:28
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honey the codewitch5-May-20 20:29
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F-ES Sitecore6-May-20 1:01
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Microsoft didn't put generics into 1.x I think because of time constraints, and if so they should have waited, IMO.

.net was so radically different with so many improvements, the fact that generics wasn't included was pretty irrelevant. To put things into perspective, .net 1 shipped with email classes that were just an interop wrapper to the CDONTS COM object. If there was no native support for things as fundamental as email, is it any wonder there were no generics?

For things like List<T> we just used CollectionBase. There's no major need to programatically determine the underlying collection type...back then or now, it's a fringe requirements that might be important to you, but not the masses, and delaying the rollout of .net for something no-one really needs would not be a good idea.
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