My whirlwind screencast series about C# 2.0 and 3.0 language features premiers today on Microsoft's Channel 9. Wahoo!

This is a whirlwind tour of the major language features that have been introduced in C# since the language was first released. The idea is to cover a lot of ground quickly, so that you can get the broad perspective and know what features you want to spend more time learning about. The objective is to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

In this first episode I look at a major feature introduced in C# 2.0: Generics. Watch it on Channel 9:

Whirlwind 1: What's new in C# 2 - Generics

Thanks to my gracious host and producer, Bruce Kyle, Microsoft ISV Advisor. Catch Bruce and his team on the US ISV Developer Evangelism blog.

Resources

Here are a couple of resources for digging deeper into C# generics.

Generics, C# Programming Guide, MSDN Library.

An Introduction to C# Generics, Juval Löwy, Visual Studio 2005 Technical Articles, MSDN Library.

Anders Hejlsberg - What's so great about generics? Channel 9 video. An elevator speech by the fellow who's described himself as chief randomizer on the C# team.

DotNetRock Show #34: Juval Löwy (Again). "Carl and Mark talk to Juval about, among other things, the new version of C# (2.0). Of the new features, Juval's favorite is generics."

Generic Programming Under .NET, and CLR Generics Versus C++ Templates, Stanley B. Lippman, MSDN Magazine, April and June 2005. Pair of articles compare and contrast generics and C++ templates, respectively, by a noted C++ authority.

The Design and Implementation of Generics for the .NET Common Language Runtime, Andrew Kennedy and Don Syme, Microsoft Research, 2001. If you like digging really deep, this is the original research paper on how to introduce generics into the CLR.

If you have a great C# generics resource that I didn't mention, leave a comment about it.