New Features in C# 2.0—Create Your Own Generic Collection

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Create Your Own Generic Collection

.NET 2.0 provides a number of generic collection classes for lists, stacks, queues, dictionaries, etc. Typically, these are more than sufficient for your programming needs. But from time to time you might decide to create your own generic collection classes, such as when you want to provide those collections with problem-specific knowledge or capabilities that are simply not available in existing collections (for example, creating an optimized linked list, or adding generic collection semantics to another class you’ve created). It is a goal of the language and the Framework to empower you to create your own generic collection types.