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microkarl

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I am currently using a Hashtable to store a list of collection, its type includes string, integer, and dateTime. After researched a little bit on "Generic", I am very interested of using it. However, from what I know, in order to enforce type safety, the generic collection class has to be defined to allow only one type to be stored. That is, if I initialize a new instance of generic class to be string, I can't use it to store integer. So, in this case, is it better off to just stick with the old fashion Hashtable?

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Carl
 
If you require the collection to hold multiple types of items and therefore type safety isn't a concern you may as well stick with a hash table.

If the various objects derive from a common base class or implement the same interface then you could use a generic using the base or interface.

Out of interest is there a reason why you need to store such different objecttypes in the same collection?
 
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