Thougt you could ignore generics in Whidbey? Think again!
Microsoft BCL folks have announced that generics will be a required part of the CLS as of the .NET 2.0 release. This is huge news, not only for the many managed languages that must be updated to support generics, but also for the developer, who now has to deal with them in public APIs whether you like to or not. Coming from a C++ background where I used generics extensively, I'm “pickled tink”.
Brad Abrams suggests taking a good look at the Generics Design Guidelines. I do too!