Ask and ye shall recieve generics...

We now also have a generics whitepaper on MSDN, written by the developer who's been implementing a lot of the generics support in VB! I know a lot of people still think that VB 2005 isn't going to support generics, but here's the real deal...

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# re: Ask and ye shall recieve generics...

I found that VB doesn't support value type or reference type constraints as C#. Generic type created in C# with value type constraint will work in VB, but it's no way to create a generic type with value type constraints in VB. Furthermore, reference type constraint doesn't work in VB at all. I think it's a little problem to be solved. 7/9/2004 1:28 AM | Fan

# Generics Whitepaper for VB 2005

7/9/2004 5:41 AM | ShowUsYour

# re: Ask and ye shall recieve generics...

Fan: This is a limitation of Beta 1 which will be fixed in Beta2! 7/9/2004 7:52 AM | Paul Vick

# re: Ask and ye shall recieve generics...

A great article, thanks for the link.

Actually, I have written an article in Russian on some of the new features in VB 2005 (Generics, Operator Overloading, Using block, Unsigned Types and IsNot/TryCast/Continue). So Russian programmers will know of generics in VB just-in-time ;)

But this article helped me to understand last point I was interested in - the New constraints.

7/9/2004 3:50 PM | Andrey Shchekin

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