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Beginning with .NET 2.0, Microsoft has introduced generics into the CLI whereby parameterized types can be declared and used. For C# and VB users, this must have been extremely exciting news; but for C++ people who were already used to templates, this might not have sounded all that interesting. You often hear C++ people ask why they need to use generics when they already have templates. [Note - In C++/CLI, templates can be used both with native and with managed types].