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One of the proposed things to do in our iterative development of OpenMI version 2 is to use some types of collections in the standard interfaces. One example is the ILinkableComponent interface where we have the method GetIntputExchangeItem(int index) and the property IntputExchangeItemCount. To make this feel like more object oriented the count-thing and the Get-thing should be bundled into one object (or one property of the interface). The simplest way to do this is to use e.g. the .Net type List, and with .Net version 2 such lists can be made type safe. This means that such list is in the standard defined to contain only objects of specific types (as for the GetInputExchangeItem example such list would be allowed to contain only objects of type IInputExchangeItem. However, there is another problem. If the normal type of list is used, methods such as myList.Add(object) will also be available, which we do not want for the standard.
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