In a tip from a couple of months ago, I suggested that if you have a method or property that returns a collection, then your method should return only one of three interfaces: IList, IQueryable or ...

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But by declaring my return type as class in this way, I restrict my method to only returning that class (in this example, a List). I might eventually want to rewrite the method to return some other ...