POLYMORPHISM IN VB.NET

Polymorphism

Polymorphism is one of the crucial features of OOP. It means "one name, multiple forms". It is also called as Overloading which means the use of same thing for different purposes. Using Polymorphism we can create as many functions we want with one function name but with different argument list. The function performs different operations based on the argument list in the function call. The exact function to be invoked will be determined by checking the type and number of arguments in the function.

The following code demonstrates the implementation of Polymorphism.

Module Module1

Sub Main()
Dim two As New One()
WriteLine(two.add(10))
'calls the function with one argument
WriteLine(two.add(10, 20))
'calls the function with two arguments
WriteLine(two.add(10, 20, 30))
'calls the function with three arguments
Read()
End Sub

End Module

Public Class One
Public i, j, k As Integer

Public Function add(ByVal i As Integer) As Integer
'function with one argument
Return i
End Function

Public Function add(ByVal i As Integer, ByVal j As Integer) As Integer
'function with two arguments
Return i + j
End Function

Public Function add(ByVal i As Integer, ByVal j As Integer, ByVal k As Integer) As Integer
'function with three arguments
Return i + j + k
End Function

End Class

Output of the above code is shown in the image below.