[Mono-list] Missing Interfaces in corlib

Derek Holden dsh2120@draper.com
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:38:49 -0500


Nick,

Excellent! Thanks, it works great. Sorry it took a couple days before I 
could sit down and play with it.

Derek

At 1/16/2002 11:16 AM, Nick Drochak wrote:
>Derek,
>
>This problem intrigued me just a bit, so I came up with a very simple
>tool that seems to do the job.  It's in mcs/tools called IFaceDisco.
>Just give it an interface and it will tell you the types that implement
>it directly.
>
>I spot checked the output on several interfaces with the MSDN docs, and
>it seems to be the same.  Let me know if you have any problems or
>questions.
>
>HTH,
>Nick D.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mono-list-admin@ximian.com
> > [mailto:mono-list-admin@ximian.com] On Behalf Of Derek Holden
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 12:26 AM
> > To: Nick Drochak
> > Cc: 'Mono List'
> > Subject: RE: [Mono-list] Missing Interfaces in corlib
> >
> >
> > Hmm, not the most optimal solution. In discussing the
> > IConvertible stuff I
> > was hoping to find all classes that implement it directly. I
> > say add it if
> > you don't mind, it may help me in some of the formatting stuff also.
> >
> > At 1/14/2002 10:05 AM, Nick Drochak wrote:
> > > > Would it be easy to modify your tool that did this so
> > that given a
> > > > particular Interface, it could generate a complete list
> > of classes
> > > > in mscorlib that implements that interface? I only see
> > corcompare
> > > > in mcs/tools, so I apologize for asking if it's included
> > somewhere.
> > > >
> > >
> > >Probably would be better to have a separate tool for this for now.
> > >
> > >I tried to make it, but found out that when you call
> > GetInterfaces() on
> > >a type, it runtime walks the whole hierarchy and returns any and all
> > >interfaces implemented all the way up to System.Object.
> > >
> > >So it depends on what you want to know.  The MSDN docs show
> > the classes
> > >that directly implement a particular interface, but the tool I wrote
> > >real quick will tell you all the types that implement the iface
> > >directly or through one of their ancestors; e.g. my tool says that
> > >System.AppDomainUnloadedException implements Iserializable.  It does
> > >through it's ancestor, Exception.
> > >
> > >If that's what you need (or would be useful to anyone else)
> > I can add
> > >it to the tools directory.  It's *very* simple.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Nick D.
> >
> >
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