Apr 30, 2014 · Generic is the opposite of specific. Generic and specific refer to the identification of a fact. Specific means a fact that has been specified. If you ask for (specify) a pain reliever, aspirin would …

Mar 24, 2014 · You can certainly define generic delegates, after all, that's exactly what Func and Action are. They are treated as generic definitions, just like generic interfaces and classes are. However, …

In case you happen to have a generic method that returns a generic value but doesn't have generic parameters, you can use default(T) + (T)(object) cast, together with C# 8 pattern matching/type …

Jul 8, 2009 · The generic parameter type will be the same for all methods, so I would like it at the class level. I know I could make a generic version and then inherit from it for the int version, but I was just …

Jan 27, 2010 · I am trying to combine a bunch of similar methods into a generic method. I have several methods that return the value of a querystring, or null if that querystring does not exist or is not in the

229 Is there a way to make this method generic so I can return a string, bool, int, or double? Right now, it's returning a string, but if it's able find "true" or "false" as the configuration value, I'd like to return a …

Dec 5, 2012 · My question is related to Is there a reasonable approach to "default" type parameters in C# Generics?, but using an inner generic class that approach doesn't work. Given …

What keeps us from comparing the values of generic types which are known to be IComparable? Doesn't it somehow defeat the entire purpose of generic constraints?

Jan 5, 2017 · 26 This extension method outputs the simple type name for non-generic types, and appends the list of generic arguments for generic types. This works fine for scenarios where you …

In particular, we wouldn't need both the Func<T> and Action<T> families - there'd just be Func<void> instead of Action, Func<T, void> instead of Action<T> etc. It would also make async simpler - there'd …