How to call explicit interface implementation methods internally without explicit casting?

Question

If I have

public class AImplementation:IAInterface
{
   void IAInterface.AInterfaceMethod()
   {
   }

   void AnotherMethod()
   {
      ((IAInterface)this).AInterfaceMethod();
   }
}

How to call AInterfaceMethod() from AnotherMethod() without explicit casting?

Answer 1

You can't......

Answer 2

Can't you just remove the "IAInterface." from the method signature?

public class AImplementation : IAInterface
{
   public void AInterfaceMethod()
   {
   }

   void AnotherMethod()
   {
      this.AInterfaceMethod();
   }
}

Answer 3

Tried this and it works...

public class AImplementation : IAInterface
{
    IAInterface IAInterface;

    public AImplementation() {
        IAInterface = (IAInterface)this;
    }

    void IAInterface.AInterfaceMethod()
    {
    }

    void AnotherMethod()
    {
       IAInterface.AInterfaceMethod();
    }
}

Answer 4

You can't, but if you have to do it a lot you could define a convenience helper:

private IAInterface that { get { return (IAInterface)this; } }

Whenever you want to call an interface method that was implemented explicitly you can use that.method() instead of ((IAInterface)this).method().

Answer 5

You can introduce a helper private property:

private IAInterface IAInterface { get { return this; } }

void IAInterface.AInterfaceMethod()
{
}

void AnotherMethod()
{
   IAInterface.AInterfaceMethod();
}

Answer 6

A number of answers say that you cannot. They are incorrect. There are lots of ways of doing this without using the cast operator.

Technique #1: Use "as" operator instead of cast operator.

void AnotherMethod()   
{      
    (this as IAInterface).AInterfaceMethod();  // no cast here
}

Technique #2: use an implicit conversion via a local variable.

void AnotherMethod()   
{      
    IAInterface ia = this;
    ia.AInterfaceMethod();  // no cast here either
}

Technique #3: write an extension method:

static class Extensions
{
    public static void DoIt(this IAInterface ia)
    {
        ia.AInterfaceMethod(); // no cast here!
    }
}
...
void AnotherMethod()   
{      
    this.DoIt();  // no cast here either!
}

Technique #4: Introduce a helper:

private IAInterface AsIA() { return this; }
void AnotherMethod()   
{      
    this.AsIA().IAInterfaceMethod();  // no casts here!
}