Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step, 10th Edition

Chapter 22

Operator overloading

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Explain how operator overloading works.

• Write increment and decrement operators for your own types.

• Understand the nuances of operators in structs and classes.

• Explain the need to implement some operators as pairs.

• Override operators in a struct, and implement custom equality operators.

• Implement implicit and explicit conversion operators for your own types.

The examples throughout this book make great use of the standard operator symbols (such as + and –) to perform standard operations (such as addition and subtraction) on types (such as int and double). Many of the built-in types come with their own predefined behaviors for each operator. You can also define ...