Explicit interfaces

Further to our teams discussions with Greg Fox and following on from Colin Scotts blog post I thought i would highlight this:

It is a compile-time error for an explicit interface member implementation to include access modifiers, and it is a compile-time error to include the modifiers abstract, virtual, override, or static.

Explicit interface member implementations have different accessibility characteristics than other members. Because explicit interface member implementations are never accessible through their fully qualified name in a method invocation or a property access, they are in a sense private. However, since they can be accessed through an interface instance, they are in a sense also public.

For more information see the MSDN documentation.


that’s all, interesting tho...