Generics in C#

Hi everyone..in .net 2.0 we do programming in a very smarter way Generics is the example like if we are using minimum finction to find minimum between two numbers they may be integer,string,object and may be some other data types.
Consider the following code :-
Returns minimum between two integers.
int Min( int a, int b )
{
if (a < b) return a;
else return b;
}

let suppose you have objects or string then this will not work.To use this code, we need a different version of Min for each type of parameter we want to compare then developers think to use in the folllowing manner :-
Returns minimum between two objects.
object Min( object a, object b )
{
if (a < b) return a;
else return b;
}

But less than operator (<) is not defined for the generic object type.So we need to use a coomon interface to use ex:-Icomparable. like in the following manner :-

IComparable Min( IComparable a, IComparable b )
{
if (a.CompareTo( b ) < 0) return a;
else return b;
}
By this way problem has been solved but now there is a big issue.A caller of Min that passes two integers should make a type conversion from IComparable to int and may be it gives an exception. like :-

int a = 7, b = 16
int c = (int) Min( a, b );
but .net 2.0 solved the issue using Generics.

This is the generic version of MIN method.
T Min( T a, T b ) where T : IComparable
{
if (a.CompareTo( b ) < 0) return a;
else return b;
}

Now you can call like in this manner :-
int a = 7 b = 16;
int c = Min( a, b );

Happy to code.

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