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Explain practical use of polymorphism in c#
in very breif words (many, much)
Polymorphism means having more than one form. Overloading and overriding are used to implement
WROX explains it well by giving an example of .Net framework by saying "Every type in .Net is Ploymorphic as we can cast it to .toString()"This example may make you understand polymorphysim well that Polymorphic is basically a behaviour (in general english). In CS it means when a type behaves differently in various scenarios. I.e.
class Person {} class PersonDetails : Person {} class Employee : PersonDetails {}
Now here you use to create an object of EMPLOYEE everytime whereas you cast it to PersonDetails or Person (as per your need) and then change its behaviour. :)
Polymorphism refers to having more than one forms i.e. having many functionalities..
for example: take example of TV, when you connect it to SET top box or Cable it woks as TV, when you connect it to computer interface it works as Monitor, and on connecting it to video game interface TV works as Game monitor and so on...
similiarly polymorphism can be understood...
hope you are getting my explanation....
Polymorphism refered to as one name many forms or having one name with multiple functionality.
In simple words you can use same method name with different signature or same signature but in different class.So depending on a data type it processes objects differently and an ability to redefine methods for a derived classes.
using System;
namespace ProgramCall
{
class Class1
{
public int Sum(int A, int B)
{
return A + B;
}
public float Sum(int A, float B)
{
return A + B;
}
}
class Class2 : Class1
{
public int Sum(int A, int B, int C)
{
return A + B + C;
}
}
class MainClass
{
static void Main()
{
Class2 obj = new Class2();
Console.WriteLine(obj.Sum(10,20));
Console.WriteLine(obj.Sum(10,15.70f));
Console.WriteLine(obj.Sum(10,20,30));
Console.Read();
}
}
}
In a simple words :
Inheritance : means that if you create a class Car with a public field TankSize then you derive from it a class SuperCar the last one has inherited the field TankSize from Car.
Polymorphism : is the fact that every time in the code you have a method where a Car is expected you can pass a SuperCar and it will behave like a Car. with virtual methods defined as needed you will be calling a method on a base class but the actual object on which you are working on will execute its version of the virtual method so you will be calling SuperCar.GetPrice and not Car.GetPrice in fact.
(Davide Piras - StackOverFlow.com)
For Further Information: stackoverflow.com and Microsoft Developer Network
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In short, polymorphism is the change in behavior of an object at runtime.
Polymorphism is one of the fundamental concepts of OOP.
Polymorphism provides following features:
It allows you to invoke methods of derived class through base class reference during runtime.
It has the ability for classes to provide different implementations of methods that are called through the same name.
Polymorphism is of two types:
Compile time polymorphism/Overloading
Runtime polymorphism/Overriding
Compile Time Polymorphism
Compile time polymorphism is method and operators overloading. It is also called early binding.
In method overloading method performs the different task at the different input parameters.
Runtime Time Polymorphism
Runtime time polymorphism is done using inheritance and virtual functions. Method overriding is called runtime polymorphism. It is also called late binding.
When overriding a method, you change the behavior of the method for the derived class. Overloading a method simply involves having another method with the same prototype.
Caution: Don't confused method overloading with method overriding, they are different, unrelated concepts. But they sound similar.
Polymorphism is one of the principle of object oriented programming. "Poly" means many and "morph" means forms hence the name polymorphism. Polymorphism also refered to as one name many forms or having one name with multiple functionality.In simple words you can use same method name with different signature or same signature but in different class.So depending on a data type it processes objects differently and an ability to redefine methods for a derived classes.
Two types of PolymorphismStatic PolymorphismDynamic Polymorphism
Polymorphism means one name many Form, where you can write two function with same name and different signature and difference return type.
In simple words polymorphism means1 thing has multiple forms :)when you write methods with the same name & same number of parameters but different data types & implement different behaviour in these methods. Now that is also polymorphism.
Other ways to implement polymorphism is operator overloading and implementing interfaces.
