3. What's new in version 2.0
In October 2005, Microsoft released version 2.0 of the .NET Framework. This version contains new concepts that facilitate rapid application development and reduce the number of lines of code. The result is more readable code.
Version 2.0 of C# was released at the same time as the .NET Framework 2.0, to make it easier for the language to use these new concepts.
In C++, generic patterns are used extensively, and the fact that they were not implemented in C# was one of the major criticisms levelled at the time of its release. So it's only logical that the most important innovation in C# 2.0 should be genericity. To get around the lack of genericity, C# programmers were using collections of untyped objects, and relying heavily...
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