How to deal with a sealed class when I wanted to inherit and add properties

Question

In a recent question on Stack Overflow, I asked how I might parse through a file name to extra meta info about a file.

After I worked through that problem, I decided

Answer 1

You could add an implicit operator to your class.

Eg:

class BackupFileInfo .... {
  /* your exiting code */

  public static implicit operator FileInfo( BackupFileInfo self ){
     return self.FileInfo;
  }
}

You could then treat your BackupFileInfo object like a FileInfo object like so

BackupFileInfo bf = new BackupFileInfo();
...
int mylen = ((FileInfo)bf).Length;