Visual Basic Developer Center: Defining and Using Generics in Visual Basic 2005

Visual Basic Developer Center: Defining and Using Generics in Visual Basic 2005: "Generics allow you to provide better compile-time validation when defining and using the types and methods required to handle unrelated types. Examples of such types and methods include the collection type that is required to store data of any kind, and the sort method that is required to sort arrays of various different data types. Generics also help improve performance in some scenarios. Visual Basic 2005 supports both the creation and consumption of generics. "