Interface casting required question

[Rene]

Supposed that a class "MyTestClas s" implement interface "IMyInterfa ce" (not
explicitly).

Now suppose that I make an instantiate of "MyTestClas s" and then use this
instance to pass it to a function with an argument that requires
"IMyInterfa ce" such as:

private void SomeFunction(IM yInterface xyz) {.}

My question is, will this function require a cast to "IMyInterfa ce"? For
example, if I was to do this following, would this require a cast?

MyTestClass experiment = new MyTestClass();
SomeFunction(ex periment); // Cast because argument is type "IMyInterface"? ??

Or does the compiler knows that the instance of the object implement the
interface and it ends up implementing the code the exact same way as if the
"SomeFuncti on" would have the argument of type "MyTestClas s" instead of
"IMyInterfa ce"?

Thank you.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Rene <a@b.c> wrote:

Supposed that a class "MyTestClas s" implement interface "IMyInterfa ce" (not
explicitly).

Now suppose that I make an instantiate of "MyTestClas s" and then use this
instance to pass it to a function with an argument that requires
"IMyInterfa ce" such as:

private void SomeFunction(IM yInterface xyz) {.}

My question is, will this function require a cast to "IMyInterfa ce"? For
example, if I was to do this following, would this require a cast?

MyTestClass experiment = new MyTestClass();
SomeFunction(ex periment); // Cast because argument is type "IMyInterface"? ??
No.
Or does the compiler knows that the instance of the object implement the
interface and it ends up implementing the code the exact same way as if the
"SomeFuncti on" would have the argument of type "MyTestClas s" instead of
"IMyInterfa ce"?

There's an implicit conversion from a type which implements an
interface to that interface, so the compiler knows it can call that
method.

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