Question

I’m trying to overload a method in C# with the same number of parameters but different types.

private double scale(double value) 
{
    return value * 100 / scale;
}

private float scale(float value)
{
    return value * 100 / scale;
}

but I get this error

Error 4 The type ‘[className]’ already
contains a definition for ‘scale’

NOTE: I’m working in MVS 2008

Thank you.

Answer 1

This code doesn’t make sense:

return value * 100 / scale;

If you have a method name scale, then what does the scale at the end of the line do?

Your Method Signature is semantically correct, as this is perfectly legal C# code:

private float scale(float input)
{
    return input;
}

private double scale(double input)
{
    return input;
}

It seems that you also have a field or property named scale in your class:

private float scale = 0.15f;