Is there a way in Visual Studio to right click an interface and 'Generate Class from Interface' so I end up with an empty class with all the properties and methods which the interface requires?
Kind of like Extract Interface, but backwards.
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To specifically address this question, yes, there is. Caveat, I'm using C#, working with the Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Edition.
Create an empty class, like "Class1":
class Class1
{
}
Then append an interface name, such as IObjectBase (which I'll continue to use for the remainder of this post), by using the ":", as in the following example:
class Class1:IObjectBase
When you do, there will be a short, thick, white underline, under the first letter of your interface name "I". Mouse-over it. There are a number of options which may appear. You're looking for a small icon which looks like a page with a dog-eared, top-right corner as you hover over the small, thick white line, with the tooltip of "Options to implement interface". Click on the drop-down arrow to its right.
You'll be presented with two menu item options: "Implement interface 'IObjectBase'" and "Explicitly implement interface 'IObjectBase'". From there the choice is yours.
If you're looking for guidance regarding the two options, I'd suggest reading the following articles, I think each covers the topic well, yet from different viewpoints:
- http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/392516/Why-I-use-explicit-interface-implementation-as-a-d
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/136319/whats-the-difference-between-implementing-an-interface-explicitly-or-implicitly
Regards,
HALAR
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