Why do some .NET Framework classes not use Generics when they could?

Posted by Chris Dwyer on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Chris Dwyer
Published on 2010-05-10T23:45:56Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 23:54 UTC
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Example:

System.Web.Security.MembershipCollection implements IEnumerable and not IEnumberable<T>. Why doesn't it implement the latter, when it seems that it would be better (e.g. use LINQ)?

Or, is it not necessarily better?

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