ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Overloading Methods and Constructors

When a method is overloaded, a component contains two methods with exactly the same name. Many methods in .NET Framework are overloaded, including String.Replace(), Random.Next(), and Page.FindControl().

For example, here is a list of the three overloaded versions of the Random.Next() method:

• Next()— Returns a random number between 0 and 2,147,483,647.

• Next(upperbound)— Returns a number between 0 and the upper bound.

• Next(lowerbound, upperbound)— Returns a number between the lower bound and the upper bound.

Because all three methods do the same thing—they all return a random number—it makes sense to overload the Next() method. The methods differ only in their signatures. A method signature consists of ...