Tips for writing fluent interfaces in C# 3

Question

I\'m after some good tips for fluent interfaces in C#. I\'m just learning about it myself but keen to hear what others think outside of the articles I am reading. In particu

Answer 1

You'll hit a brick when using inheritance along with fluent interfaces because using polymorphic methods break your call chains and you definitely don't want to make your interfaces non-fluent by using ugly casting and paranthesis where they are not needed. I've written an article about a pattern that provides you with a workaround using generic builders and generic extension methods with generic constraints: http://liviutrifoi.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/fluent-interfaces-constraints-at-compile-time/