Question

I’m trying to implement an interface that requires a single property, but I don’t explicitly care what type it is. For example:

public interface IName
{
    dynamic Name {get; set;}
}

Then if I have a class I’d like to implement the IName interface with a type of string:

public class Person : IName
{
     public string Name {get; set;}
} 

This however raises an error. I know I could make the interface IName take a generic arguement IName<T> but that forces me to create a bunch of overloaded functions that take IName<string>, IName<NameObj>, IName<etc> instead of casting within a single function.

How can I require that a class contains a property?

Answer 1

I am unable to test this now, but maybe you could implement the interface explicitly.

public class Person : IName
{
    public string Name {get; set;}

    dynamic IName.Name {
        get { return this.Name; }
        set { this.Name = value as string; }
    }
}