Work in progress to add support for covariant return types to the .NET runtime. Soon we'll be able to override a virtual method returning `object` with a method returning `string`. Because of how array variance works, weird things might be possible in IL. 

class Base
{
    public virtual IntPtr[] Fun() => null;
}

// This is obvious pseude-code because C# won't let us introduce methods differing
// in return type. C# also requires to be explicit about "virtual" and "override".
// But IL... not so much.
class Derived : Base
{
    // overrides Base.Fun on 32bit platforms.
    public override uint[] Fun() => null;

    // overrides Base.Fun on 64bit platforms.
    public override ulong[] Fun() => null;
}

public class ProductViewModel
{
    Public int ProductId {get; set;}
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Rrp { get; set; }
    public string SellingPrice { get; set; }
    public string Discount { get; set; }
    public string Savings { get; set; }
}

using SoCPatterns.Layered.Model;

namespace SoCPatterns.Layered.Service
{
    public class ProductListRequest
    {
        public CustomerType CustomerType { get; set; }
    }
}

public class ProductListResponse
{
    public bool Success { get; set; }
    public string Message { get; set; }
    public IList<ProductViewModel> Products { get; set; }
}

public static class ProductMapperExtensionMethods
{
    public static ProductViewModel ConvertToProductViewModel(this Model.Product product)
    {
        ProductViewModel productViewModel = new ProductViewModel();
        productViewModel.ProductId = product.Id;
        productViewModel.Name = product.Name;
        productViewModel.RRP = String.Format(“{0:C}”, product.Price.RRP);
        productViewModel.SellingPrice = String.Format(“{0:C}”, product.Price.SellingPrice);
        if (product.Price.Discount > 0)
            productViewModel.Discount = String.Format(“{0:C}”, product.Price.Discount);
        if (product.Price.Savings < 1 && product.Price.Savings > 0)
            productViewModel.Savings = product.Price.Savings.ToString(“#%”);
        return productViewModel;
    }
    public static IList<ProductViewModel> ConvertToProductListViewModel(
        this IList<Model.Product> products)
    {
        IList<ProductViewModel> productViewModels = new List<ProductViewModel>();
        foreach(Model.Product p in products)
        {
            productViewModels.Add(p.ConvertToProductViewModel());
        }
        return productViewModels;
    }
}

public class ProductService
{
    private Model.ProductService _productService;
    public ProductService(Model.ProductService ProductService)
    {
        _productService = ProductService;
    }
    public ProductListResponse GetAllProductsFor(
        ProductListRequest productListRequest)
    {
        ProductListResponse productListResponse = new ProductListResponse();
        try
        {
            IList<Model.Product> productEntities =
                _productService.GetAllProductsFor(productListRequest.CustomerType);
            productListResponse.Products = productEntities.ConvertToProductListViewModel();
            productListResponse.Success = true;
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            // Log the exception…
            productListResponse.Success = false;
            // Return a friendly error message
            productListResponse.Message = ex.Message;
        }
        return productListResponse;
    }
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using SoCPatterns.Layered.Model;

namespace SoCPatterns.Layered.Repository
{
    public class ProductRepository : IProductRepository
    {
        public IList<Model.Product> FindAll()
        {
            var products = from p in new ShopDataContext().Products
                                select new Model.Product
                                {
                                    Id = p.ProductId,
                                    Name = p.ProductName,
                                    Price = new Model.Price(p.Rrp, p.SellingPrice)
                                };
            return products.ToList();
        }
    }
}

using SoCPatterns.Layered.Service;

public interface IProductListView
{
    void Display(IList<ProductViewModel> Products);
    Model.CustomerType CustomerType { get; }
    string ErrorMessage { set; }
}

using SoCPatterns.Layered.Service;

namespace SoCPatterns.Layered.Presentation
{
    public class ProductListPresenter
    {
        private IProductListView _productListView;
        private Service.ProductService _productService;
        public ProductListPresenter(IProductListView ProductListView,
            Service.ProductService ProductService)
        {
            _productService = ProductService;
            _productListView = ProductListView;
        }
        public void Display()
        {
            ProductListRequest productListRequest = new ProductListRequest();
            productListRequest.CustomerType = _productListView.CustomerType;
            ProductListResponse productResponse =
                _productService.GetAllProductsFor(productListRequest);
            if (productResponse.Success)
            {
                _productListView.Display(productResponse.Products);
            }
            else
            {
                _productListView.ErrorMessage = productResponse.Message;
            }
        }
    }
}

 This effectively means that what looks like a very large chunk of .NET is now open source

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