Is there anyway to duplicate the intellisense provided by the Color struct in visual studio?

Question

What I want to do is provide some public static fields that will be used as instances of an interface implementation and have intellisense pick them up when the interface is a method argument.

The idea is to have it look like an enum to the developer. I reference Color because basically this is the behavior I want, I just don't know how to replicate it.

Edit

I don't know what was going on. It seems to be working now. Thanks for the quick help on a stupid question.

Answer 1

The Color struct simply has a bunch of public static properties that return the expected objects. Sample:

public struct Color 
{
    public Color(int r, int g, int b) 
    { /* Init */ }

    public static Color Black
    {
        get { return new Color( 0, 0, 0 ); }
    }
}

To clarify my answer. You would simply need to replicate this pattern within your own code to achieve the same affect. I'd recommend looking at the T4 code-gen built into Visual Studio if you have a lot of values that need to be created that already exist else-ware. Just don't add too many. That could confuse the developer and slow down the IDE.

Answer 2

You seem to have answered your own question when asking it - use public static fields:

public class MyClass
{
    public const string Value1 = "something one";
    public static readonly  MyType Value2 = new MyType();
    public const int Value3 = 3;
}

public class MyOtherClass
{
    public MyOtherClass()
    {
        string str = MyClass.Value1;
        // str == "something one"
    }
}