The Original .NET Geek

So I just wanted to follow up on my last post where I described in detail (agonizing) how I thought it sucked that Generics did not support covariance. I had pointed to Rick Byers’ post where he explained more on the matter. He commented and gave me a great idea. So I went ahead and followed his direction and came up with a solution that worked great.

In the end my solution ended up having both a generic IController as well as a non-generic IController. Big thanks to Rick again. My sample is included below. It is by no means a complete implementation but more of a conceptual model. The formatting is a bit ugly...maybe Ill fix it later...

public interface IMyTypedView : IView
{ 
} // interface IMyTypedView

 public class MyTypedView : IView
{
#region IView<IMyTypedView> Members 
public IController Controller
{ }
#endregion
} // class MyTypedView

public interface IView<vT>
   where vT : IView
{ 
   IController Controller {get;}
} // interface IMyTypedView

public interface IModel
{     } // interface IModel

 public class TypedModel2 : IModel
{  } // class TypedModel2

 public interface IController
{       IModel Model { get;}

        IController Parent { get;}

        IController[] Children { get;}

        IView View { get;} 
 } // interface IController

        IController Parent { get;}

        IController[] Children { get;}

        IView View { get;} 
 } // interface IController

public interface IController<mT, vT> : IController
   where mT : IModel
   where vT : IView
{
   mT Model { get;set;}
   vT View { get;set;}
}// interface IController

public class MyControllerBase<mT, vT> : IController<mT, vT>
   where mT:IModel
   where vT:IView 

{ 

  # region IController<mT,vT> Members
     mT _model;
    public mT Model
    { 
      get 
       { return _model;}

      set
        {_model = value; }

     }

     vT _view;

     public vT View 
     {
      get
        {return _view;    }
      set 
      { _view = value;  }

      set
        {_model = value; }

     }

     vT _view;

     public vT View 
     {
      get
        {return _view;    }
      set 
      { _view = value;  }

            }    

#endregion

#region IController Members

           IModel IController.Model 
        { 
            get 
            { 
                return this.Model; 
            } 

            set
            {
                this.Model = (mT)value ; 
            } 
        } 

}