C#: Any way to suppress compiler errors similar to suppressing warning messages?

Question

I have the following code that generates a compiler error:

    Boolean IConvertible.ToBoolean(IFormatProvider provider)
    {
        ThrowHelper.ThrowInvali         


        

Answer 1

You could have the method in ThrowHelper only create the exception, not actually throw it.

Boolean IConvertible.ToBoolean(IFormatProvider provider)
{
    throw ThrowHelper.CreateInvalidCast(typeof(MyType), typeof(Boolean));
}

This would probably result in a better stack trace as well: it would point at ToBoolean, not at ThrowInvalidCast.