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.