Is there a way in C# to mark a method as being part of a class to satisfy an interface that the class implements? I find myself wondering sometimes when digging in a class's code why some methods are there but then, when I try to remove one since it isn't in use, I see it's necessary in order for the class to implement some interface. It'd be nice to have these methods marked as such. Something like the @Override
annotation in Java, maybe.
Edit: I would prefer to not explicitly implement the interface because then accessing the interface methods on an instance of my class becomes more of a hassle (i.e., having to cast an instance of MyClass
to be IMyInterface
before calling MyInterfaceMethod
).
Edit: I would also prefer not to use regions. I don't want a big block of code described loosely through some arbitrary name as being part of an interface implementation, but rather to denote specific methods, wherever they may be within the class, as being part of an interface. Even some XML comment template that's intended for saying which interface the method belongs to would be nice.
Edit: All the answers seem to suggest I explicitly implement interfaces, which I don't want to do, or that I use regions, which I also don't want to do. I think Will understood my request best. I was hoping for something like an annotation, so I could do something like the following:
[Interface(IMyInterface)]
public void MyImplicitlyImplementedInterfaceMethod() { }
Or, as dss539 mentioned in a comment to this answer:
public implement void MyImplicitlyImplementedInterfaceMethod() { }
Much like we have override
today: public override bool Equals(object obj) { }
.