RE: Should this type of method overload work in C#?

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Dave Raskin <DaveRaskin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, here's an example of where it fails. This has an added wrinkle of another
> virtual method - Process().

<snip>

Overload resolution is done at compile time - it works out the
*signature* of which method will be called. Now, the Process method is
calling

this.service.Send(this)

and all it knows about "this" is that it's a BaseDerived - so it
doesn't know it can call Send(DerivedDerived).

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