New Features in C# 2.0—Implement the Collection Interfaces

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Implement the Collection Interfaces

In addition to its generic collection classes, .NET 2.0 also provides a set of generic interfaces that enable you to create type-safe collections that have all the functionality of the earlier, nongeneric .NET 1.x collection types. You’ll find these interfaces in the System.Collections.Generic namespace. The namespace also includes a number of related generic interfaces, such as IComparable<T>, which you can use to compare two objects of type T regardless of whether they are part of a collection.

You can create a sorted linked list by having each datatype stored in the list implement the IComparable<T> interface and by having your Node object be responsible for inserting each new Node at the correct (sorted) position in the linked list.