I know I’m late with the news here, but I sure never heard of this until now. Did you know you can do extension methods in .Net 2.0 with a minor hack? I think Visual Studio 2008 might be required. All you have to do, as I learned from jaredpar’s blog, is create your own class called “ExtensionAttribute” in the correct namespace. After that, you have extension methods. That is crazy! I’ve been wanting them for a while, so I’m glad I searched around for this!
As an example, I created an extension method for List
namespace System.Runtime.CompilerServices
{
public class ExtensionAttribute : Attribute
{
}
}
namespace SampleProject
{
public static class Extensions
{
public static void DoYourThing<T>(this List<T> list, Action<T> action)
{
list.ForEach(action);
}
}
}```
If you are unfamiliar with extension methods, get with the gravy train here because they are super cool! No kidding, they are actually really useful.