Question

Say I have a type that implements a property with a string type:

public class Record {      public string Value { get; set; } } 

Then I have an interface that defines a property with the same name:

public interface IIntValued {      public int Value { get; set; } } 

I can use explicit interface as follows:

public class Record : IIntValued {      public string Value { get; set; }      int IIntValued.Value       {           get{ return 0; } set{}      } } 

However, if I want to be able to reference the string ‘Value’ in my explicit interface, can I do it? If so, how? I imagine it to be something like:

public class Record : IIntValued {      public string Value { get; set; }      public int IIntValued.Value       {           get           {                string value = /*Magic here*/.Value;                return int.parse(value);            }            set{}      } } 

As you can see, I want the ‘string valued’ ‘Value’ property for an expression in the ‘int valued’ ‘Value’ property. If it were another explicitly implemented interface member, I could typecast to that Interface and then use, but how would it work for an implicit type member?

Note: The example is a bit contrived, but hopefully demonstrates the language question.

Answer 1

For an implicit type member, just Value or this.Value should be fine – because it won’t resolve to IIntValued.Value by default.