C# Unleashed

Overloading Methods

This section discusses method overloading, which is the ability to have multiple methods with the same name. Methods are overloaded by varying the number and type of parameters they accept. Listing 9.1 shows an example of method overloading.

Listing 9.1. Overloading Methods

using System; public class Budget { enum Month { Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec } enum Category { Food, Home, Jeans, Fun } decimal[,] myBudget = new decimal[4, 12]; public void Initialize(decimal[] initVals) { for (Category c=Category.Food; c <= Category.Fun; c++) { for (Month m=Month.Jan; m <= Month.Dec; m++) { myBudget[(int)c, (int)m] = initVals[(int)m]; } } } public void Initialize(decimal initVal) { for (Category c=Category.Food; ...