Differences between C# and VB "Implements "

[balabaster]

Hey, I've been trawling documentation for this, but can't figure out what it's called so I'm running short of answers:

In VB say you build some interface:

Interface IDemoInterface
 
  Sub MyFirstMethod(ByVal Param1 As String)
  Sub MySecondMethod(ByVal Param1 As String)
  Sub MyThirdMethod(ByVal Param1 As Integer)
 
End Interface

Now, you get as far as implementing that interface:

Public Class DemoImplementsInterface
  Implements IDemoInterface

Now, as soon as you hit enter after typing the interface name that you're implementing, it automatically populates the class with the relevant methods required to implement that class:

Public Class DemoImplementsInterface
  Implements IDemoInterface
 
  Public Sub MyFirstMethod(ByVal Param1 As String) Implements IDemoInterface.MyFirstMethod
 
  End Sub
 
  Public Sub MySecondMethod(ByVal Param1 As String) Implements IDemoInterface.MySecondMethod
 
  End Sub
 
  Public Sub MyThirdMethod(ByVal Param1 As Integer) Implements IDemoInterface.MyThirdMethod
 
  End Sub
 
End Class

So, I've just realised that this appears not to work in C# causing me a huge and largely unecessary amount of typing. Is there a way of forcing this to work? I thought about writing a macro to parse the interface and add the methods into my code, but it seems like a lot of work for something that at least in my mind should be automatic. Does anyone know what this process of automatically writing out the interface methods in your class is called? Maybe if I had that magic keyword, I could figure out the rest myself.

[Plater]

That is often an annoyance of mine too. Eclipse does it for java, why doesn't it work in C#.
Well it does, just you have to be paying really close attention.
The first letter of your interface will get a little blue line under it (like the red line when you forget to add a namespace for something) and you get two options to implement the namespace. My quick test did not show a difference in picking either option, but there must be some difference.

[nateraaaa]

Not sure if either of you use ReSharper but ReSharper will create all methods associated with the Interface that you are implementing simply by clicking on the red light bulb and selecting Implement members. If you haven't used ReSharper before I highly recommend it.

http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
Nathan

[balabaster]

Thanks guys - both of your posts helped. ReSharper looks like a fairly comprehensive tool - but at $349 for the license, I think I'll just pay more attention to the little marks (what are they called?) in my IDE and use the option that Plater pointed out. Maybe I'll check out ReSharper down the road when some of the other tools become of more use to me.