What is the difference between ArrayList and List<> in C#?
Is it only that List<> has a type while ArrayList doesn’t?
What is the difference between ArrayList and List<> in C#? Is it only that
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What is the difference between ArrayList and List<> in C#?
Is it only that List<> has a type while ArrayList doesn’t?
Yes, pretty much.
List<T>is a generic class. It supports storing values of a specific type without casting to or fromobject(which would have incurred boxing/unboxing overhead whenTis a value type in theArrayListcase).ArrayListsimply storesobjectreferences. As a generic collection,List<T>implements the genericIEnumerable<T>interface and can be used easily in LINQ (without requiring anyCastorOfTypecall).ArrayListbelongs to the days that C# didn’t have generics. It’s deprecated in favor ofList<T>. You shouldn’t useArrayListin new code that targets .NET >= 2.0 unless you have to interface with an old API that uses it.