Answer: Instantiating an interface

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Well, that was a fun little quiz… I should have added “no scoping tricks” to the list of rules, but what Roy Osherove suggested does work. But Kevin Dente  gives the answer I was looking for. Whenever you see something funny going on in the framework 9 out 10 times it is because of Com Interop ;-)… go figure:

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

[CoClass(typeof(Foo))]

[Guid("00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000")]

[ComImport]

interface IFoo { }

public class Class1 {

    static void Main() {

        new IFoo();

    }

}

class Foo : IFoo { }

Thanks again to the folks down-under for suggesting this quiz.