Question

I’m fairly new to this concept.

I see some functions within some code that are:

Public Function GetDataObjects(Of Customer)(ByVal dataset as DataSet)
 ...
End Function

What exactly does the (Of Customer) do in this instance or mean?

Answer 1

Doesn’t the definition look rather like:

Public Function GetDataObjects(Of T)(ByVal dataset as DataSet) as IList<T>
 ...
End Function

And then you use it like

IList(Of Customer) customers = GetDataObjects(Of Customer)(someDataSet)

if so, the Customer provides a real type to substitute for operations where T is used in the GetDataObjects function