Generics Best Practice

This is the Microsoft listed best practice for generics.

I agree with the following post. Here Richard Birkby recommends subclassing generics before using them.

His argument is that this make it easier to extend (which is a good idea) but I would also recommend subclassing to reduce the repetitive nature of the code:

For example:

public class foo

{

public List<int> Bar

{

get {return _Bar;}

}

private List<int> _Bar;

}

 

Would be more cleanly written as:

public class IntList : List<int> {}

public class foo

{

public IntList Bar

{

get {return _Bar;}

}

private IntList _Bar;

}