Implicitify 1.0.2

dotnet add package Implicitify --version 1.0.2
NuGet\Install-Package Implicitify -Version 1.0.2
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.
<PackageReference Include="Implicitify" Version="1.0.2" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.
paket add Implicitify --version 1.0.2
#r "nuget: Implicitify, 1.0.2"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.
// Install Implicitify as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=Implicitify&version=1.0.2

// Install Implicitify as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=Implicitify&version=1.0.2

Implicitify

A C# library that allows classes to implement interfaces implicitly. Allows for any class to implement any interface as long as the class has the same method and/or property signature.

Usage

using Implicitify;

public interface IDirectoryInfo
{
    string Name { get; }
}

public static class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        // DirectoryInfo is a System.IO class, it does not implement
        // any interface, however, it would be nice to abstract it.
        var directory = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo(@"C:\Hello World\");

        // Wrapped is an IDirectoryInfo implementation!
        var wrapped = directory.As<IDirectoryInfo>();

        // Will "Hello World"
        Console.WriteLine(wrapped.Name);
    }
}

Motivation

When adding abstractions on top of well-known C# classes such as FileInfo, HttpClient or even any external nuget that one may wish to extend. There's always the complicated extra step of having to create an interface for these types that add the methods and then creating a Wrapper. However this is too much work, although it guarantees type-safety.

Inspiration

In languages such as Go interfaces are always implemented implicitly, this allows for greater abstractions that the implementations aren't aware of. However in both C# and Java this isn't a feature.

Product Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
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.NET Core netcoreapp2.0 was computed.  netcoreapp2.1 was computed.  netcoreapp2.2 was computed.  netcoreapp3.0 was computed.  netcoreapp3.1 was computed. 
.NET Standard netstandard2.0 is compatible.  netstandard2.1 was computed. 
.NET Framework net461 was computed.  net462 was computed.  net463 was computed.  net47 was computed.  net471 was computed.  net472 was computed.  net48 was computed.  net481 was computed. 
MonoAndroid monoandroid was computed. 
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1.0.2 10,939 2/26/2019

Initial release