Exposing extension methods in F#

April 13th, 2011

Thanks for Quora + Reflector + MSDN, I’ve figured out how to expose extension methods from F#

  1. Create a public module within a namespace
  2. Add the extension method as a function
  3. Decorate both the module and the function(s) with the ExtensionMethodAttribute

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namespace Castle.MonoRail
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[<System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ExtensionAttribute>]
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module public ExtensionMethods = 
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    open Castle.MonoRail.Routing
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    open Castle.MonoRail.Hosting.Mvc
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    [<System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ExtensionAttribute>]
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    let Match(router:Router, path:string) = 
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        router.Match(path, MonoRailHandlerMediator())
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		Mauricio Scheffer Says:
						

		July 26th, 2011 at 8:10 am 
		
		
	
			
Excellent, I just had to write some extension methods and used this as reference. The only downside to this is that it doesn’t support overloads. But if you use a type instead of a module and static members instead of let bindings, you can have overloaded extensions.

			
		


	
			
		
		hammett Says:
						

		July 26th, 2011 at 2:50 pm 
		
		
	
			
I’ve used [CompiledName] to support overloads..

			
		


	
	
	


 



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