Question

If I were to have interfaces like so:

public interface IAlbum
{
    string Title { get; set; }
}

public interface ITrack
{
    string Title { get; set; }
    float Duration { get; set; }
}

What would be the best way to add a list of tracks to the IAlbum interface? What if I wanted the individual tracks to be properties and not have an exposed array of tracks?

Answer 1

The list of tracks could be either:

IList<ITrack> Tracks {get;}

or

IEnumerable<ITrack> Tracks {get;}

If you want the concrete type to expose a more concrete API, you could implement the above via explicit implementation.

You could in theory make:

interface IAlbum : IEnumerable<ITrack> {...}

but I don’t think that is a good idea.

Re exposing tracks as properties; if I understand correctly, you could do this “kind of” at runtime by implementing ICustomTypeDescriptor on the concrete album type. But it is non-trivial and a bit messy – and it won’t help hugely unless you are using data-binding.