Article:		C# Generics
Subject:		Templates
Date:		2004-05-19 10:13:23
From:		xeroply
For those coming from C++ background, is there any difference between C# Generics and C++ templates? They look almost identical, except for a few language syntax particularities.

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• Templates
  2004-05-19 10:18:21  JesseLiberty [Reply | View]
  
  
  Aside from a few syntactic differences, the key difference is that the template is instantiated at run time, allowing the CLR to share code among various instantiations (e.g., a queue of strings, a queue of ints and a queue of Dogs) reducing code-bloat.
  
  You might find a bit more in the white paper on the C# spec at The C# Language Page on MSDN -- scroll down to Reference and download the C# 2.0 specification.