Generic in C#

Question

Sir, I am a bit unknown about Generic Types in C#.
It will be very useful if you give me description of generic type in c#.
1) What is generic Types in C#?
2) why we Use  generic Types?

Dinesh Beniwal · Accepted Answer

See this article it will help you,
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/d6fefe/all-about-generics/
Thank You

Sanjeeb Lenka · Answer

hi,
Refer to these link
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/Ashush/generics-in-C-Sharp-part-i/
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/Ashush/generics-in-C-Sharp-part-ii/

Jaish Mathews · Answer

Simply in a layman's view, generic will help you to get rid of object casting once handling different types. You can define a single type which can handle all types internally rather than using casting. Below is a sample taken from MSDN
// Declare the generic class.
public class GenericList
{
void Add(T input) { }
}
class TestGenericList
{
private class ExampleClass { }
static void Main()
{
// Declare a list of type int.
GenericList list1 = new GenericList ();
// Declare a list of type string.
GenericList list2 = new GenericList ();
// Declare a list of type ExampleClass.
GenericList list3 = new GenericList ();
}
}
Class "GenericList" should handle different types. Normally you may define object type and then typecast, but here during compile time itself you can mention all types without casting like
// Declare a list of type int.
GenericList list1 = new GenericList ();
// Declare a list of type string.
GenericList list2 = new GenericList ();
// Declare a list of type ExampleClass.
GenericList list3 = new GenericList ();